From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211_hwsim: notify user-space about channel change.
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 10:13:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1428999215.3019.6.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <551AC3B6.1040001@candelatech.com>
On Tue, 2015-03-31 at 08:56 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> > Well, depends. Our driver just asks the firmware to do the scan, and it
> > will do all the scheduling by itself, i.e. it'll go through the channels
> > at convenient times etc.
>
> I do not want to offload scanning in user-space, which is the equivalent
> of what your driver is doing as far as the kernel is concerned? If someone wants
> to do that in the future, then sure, they can implement such a thing.
Well, the question isn't really that offloading, the question is what
happens with the hw-scan logic in hwsim? Though I guess now that I think
about it, that wouldn't show up in userspace at all with your changes.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-14 8:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-17 23:59 [RFC] mac80211_hwsim: notify user-space about channel change greearb
2015-02-23 11:49 ` Johannes Berg
2015-02-23 17:43 ` Ben Greear
2015-02-24 10:11 ` Johannes Berg
2015-02-24 14:36 ` Ben Greear
2015-02-24 14:40 ` Johannes Berg
2015-03-11 21:05 ` Ben Greear
2015-03-31 14:27 ` Johannes Berg
2015-03-31 15:56 ` Ben Greear
2015-04-14 8:13 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2015-04-14 14:56 ` Ben Greear
2015-04-14 15:06 ` Johannes Berg
2015-04-14 15:55 ` Ben Greear
2015-04-15 9:33 ` Johannes Berg
2015-04-15 15:06 ` Ben Greear
2015-04-17 11:25 ` Johannes Berg
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