From: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
To: "Helmut Schaa" <hschaa@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Implement basic background scanning
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:43:34 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877i9czdjd.fsf@nokia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200809151835.03786.hschaa@suse.de> (ext Helmut Schaa's message of "Mon\, 15 Sep 2008 18\:35\:03 +0200")
Helmut Schaa <hschaa@suse.de> writes:
>> This doesn't play well at all with hardware assisted scan as far as I
>> can tell.
>
> Correct. The patch only adapts software scan code. The hardware
> assisted scan is not touched at all but should also not be affected
> in an odd way.
I would guess that some firmwares support similar scanning in
hardware. In the future we might add support for background scanning
in hardware with a flag in hw_scan(), or something like that.
--
Kalle Valo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-16 8:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-15 12:16 More thoughts about roaming Helmut Schaa
2008-09-15 12:29 ` [RFC] Implement basic background scanning Helmut Schaa
2008-09-15 14:32 ` Michael Buesch
2008-09-15 14:40 ` Helmut Schaa
2008-09-15 15:59 ` Johannes Berg
2008-09-15 16:35 ` Helmut Schaa
2008-09-16 8:43 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2008-09-16 9:10 ` Johannes Berg
2008-09-16 9:20 ` Helmut Schaa
2008-09-16 11:06 ` Johannes Berg
2008-09-16 9:15 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-09-15 12:35 ` [RFC] mac80211: notify the user space about low signal quality Helmut Schaa
2008-09-15 14:07 ` Dan Williams
2008-09-15 14:34 ` Helmut Schaa
2008-09-15 15:28 ` Dan Williams
2008-09-15 16:45 ` Helmut Schaa
2008-09-16 1:21 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-09-16 7:41 ` Helmut Schaa
2008-09-16 8:07 ` Kalle Valo
2008-09-16 8:12 ` Johannes Berg
2008-09-16 8:55 ` Kalle Valo
2008-09-23 18:21 ` John W. Linville
2008-09-16 8:00 ` Kalle Valo
2008-09-16 7:57 ` Kalle Valo
2008-09-15 15:10 ` Holger Schurig
2008-09-15 15:19 ` Dan Williams
2008-09-16 8:25 ` Kalle Valo
2008-09-16 8:50 ` Holger Schurig
2008-09-16 9:25 ` Helmut Schaa
2008-09-16 9:32 ` Helmut Schaa
2008-09-16 10:23 ` Holger Schurig
2008-09-15 15:17 ` Holger Schurig
2008-09-16 7:53 ` Kalle Valo
2008-09-15 12:41 ` [RFC] wpa_supplicant: trigger a scan if signal quality is low Helmut Schaa
2008-09-15 13:59 ` More thoughts about roaming Dan Williams
2008-09-15 14:18 ` Helmut Schaa
2008-09-15 14:45 ` Dan Williams
2008-09-16 7:09 ` Kalle Valo
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