From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: add pre- and post-scan hooks
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:09:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1221052167.4648.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1221033061.12266.10.camel@johannes.berg>
On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 09:51 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 11:43 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > mrv8k has commands that get called before and after the scan has been
> > done to save and restore hardware state. Add optional callbacks to
> > mac80211 to enable low-level drivers to know when the stack is about to
> > start scanning, and when it's done.
>
> Was just talking to Sujith about something on IRC and realised that
> maybe this is required to turn off IBSS beaconing when leaving the
> channel for a scan?
Most cards to the beaconing in hardware/firmware with a given template,
right? If so this sounds quite plausible. Does beaconing not get
paused now?
Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-10 13:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-22 15:43 [PATCH] mac80211: add pre- and post-scan hooks Dan Williams
2008-06-24 8:55 ` Johannes Berg
2008-06-24 11:15 ` Dan Williams
2008-06-24 11:21 ` Johannes Berg
2008-06-24 14:45 ` Dan Williams
2008-06-24 14:53 ` Johannes Berg
2008-09-10 7:51 ` Johannes Berg
2008-09-10 13:09 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2008-09-10 21:38 ` Johannes Berg
2008-09-11 18:53 ` Johannes Berg
2008-09-11 20:35 ` Jouni Malinen
2008-09-11 23:26 ` Johannes Berg
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=1221052167.4648.9.camel@localhost.localdomain \
--to=dcbw@redhat.com \
--cc=johannes@sipsolutions.net \
--cc=linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linville@tuxdriver.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.