From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com>, Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>,
Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>,
James Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.intel.com>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/13] mac80211: remove hw_scan callback
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:49:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1177696162.30796.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1177687364.3565.36.camel@johannes.berg>
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 17:22 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 16:16 +0100, Andy Green wrote:
>
> > Yeah but this isn't "in hardware" -- it's in firmware: software that
> > runs of a different, vendor-specific, CPU.
>
> [...]
>
> Guys, this discussion is deteriorating rapidly!
>
> The diff to rip out the hw_scan callback is tiny, and since it'd need to
> be worked on anyway to add notification when scanning is done, IMHO it
> is little more work to remove the scan now and add it back in one patch
> including the notification. That just pushes the problem back to those
> people who want/need it and then they can decide if it's worth the
> effort and if they can show that it brings enough advantages.
This discussion has made it pretty clear that if hw_scan ever goes out,
it's going to be really difficult to get it back _in_ at all, even if it
works.
Dan
> The current cfg80211 scanning API is pretty much modeled on the 802.11
> MLME interface and as such should be easy to push through to the
> firmware if necessary, even through mac80211.
>
> johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-27 17:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-23 18:48 [PATCH 01/13] mac80211: Add radiotap support Michael Wu
2007-04-23 18:48 ` [PATCH 02/13] sync with radiotap header in wireless-2.6 Michael Wu
2007-04-23 18:48 ` [PATCH 04/13] mac80211: disable tasklets on close Michael Wu
2007-04-23 20:53 ` Jiri Benc
2007-04-23 18:48 ` [PATCH 07/13] mac80211: fix configuration concurrency issues in ieee80211_sta.c Michael Wu
2007-04-24 16:19 ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-23 18:48 ` [PATCH 06/13] mac80211: avoid flush_scheduled_work Michael Wu
2007-04-23 18:48 ` [PATCH 03/13] mac80211: fix virtual interface related locking Michael Wu
2007-04-23 20:41 ` Jiri Benc
2007-04-23 20:55 ` Michael Wu
2007-04-23 22:20 ` Michael Wu
2007-04-23 20:58 ` Andy Green
2007-04-23 21:21 ` Michael Wu
2007-04-24 18:09 ` Andy Green
2007-04-24 18:24 ` Michael Wu
2007-04-24 18:59 ` John W. Linville
2007-04-25 12:09 ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-23 18:48 ` [PATCH 05/13] mac80211: remove statistics callback for master device Michael Wu
2007-04-23 18:48 ` [PATCH 08/13] mac80211: misc cleanups in ieee80211_sta.c Michael Wu
2007-04-23 18:48 ` [PATCH 12/13] mac80211: prevent master device from going up without ieee80211 qdisc Michael Wu
2007-04-23 18:48 ` [PATCH 11/13] mac80211: fix issues in " Michael Wu
2007-04-23 18:48 ` [PATCH 10/13] mac80211: set bssid to broadcast before scan Michael Wu
2007-04-24 16:24 ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-27 17:40 ` Jiri Benc
2007-04-27 19:49 ` Michael Wu
2007-04-27 21:18 ` Michael Wu
2007-04-27 21:29 ` Michael Wu
2007-04-23 18:48 ` [PATCH 09/13] mac80211: remove hw_scan callback Michael Wu
2007-04-24 16:20 ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-26 12:48 ` Michael Wu
2007-04-25 5:03 ` James Ketrenos
2007-04-25 18:16 ` John W. Linville
2007-04-25 20:34 ` Michael Wu
2007-04-26 21:57 ` James Ketrenos
2007-04-27 0:23 ` Michael Wu
2007-04-27 4:14 ` James Ketrenos
2007-04-27 7:44 ` Andy Green
2007-04-27 8:06 ` James Ketrenos
2007-04-27 8:54 ` Andy Green
2007-04-27 9:00 ` Jiri Benc
2007-04-27 15:32 ` Michael Wu
2007-04-29 11:55 ` Guy Cohen
2007-04-27 6:54 ` James Ketrenos
2007-04-27 14:27 ` Michael Wu
2007-05-08 17:08 ` Michael Wu
2007-04-27 14:28 ` Dan Williams
2007-04-27 14:42 ` Jiri Benc
2007-04-27 14:56 ` Dan Williams
2007-04-27 15:16 ` Andy Green
2007-04-27 15:22 ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-27 17:17 ` James Ketrenos
2007-04-27 17:49 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2007-04-27 18:09 ` Dan Williams
2007-04-27 18:52 ` Andy Green
2007-04-27 15:20 ` Jiri Benc
2007-04-27 15:30 ` Andy Green
2007-04-27 15:36 ` Jiri Benc
2007-04-27 15:52 ` Andy Green
2007-04-27 17:44 ` James Ketrenos
2007-04-27 17:02 ` James Ketrenos
2007-04-27 18:10 ` Jiri Benc
2007-04-27 19:42 ` Dan Williams
2007-04-27 19:47 ` Jiri Benc
2007-04-27 19:52 ` John W. Linville
2007-04-26 3:03 ` James Ketrenos
2007-04-27 20:47 ` James Ketrenos
2007-04-28 13:25 ` Jiri Benc
2007-04-23 18:48 ` [PATCH 13/13] mac80211: stop all virtual interfaces when master device goes down Michael Wu
2007-04-23 20:58 ` Jiri Benc
2007-04-24 16:16 ` [PATCH 01/13] mac80211: Add radiotap support Johannes Berg
2007-04-28 13:18 ` Jiri Benc
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