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From: Sathishkumar Muruganandam <murugana@codeaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] add Wide Band Scan support
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To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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On 2019-11-14 12:08, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-11-11 at 13:27 +0530, Sathishkumar Muruganandam wrote:
>> 
>> > How is this related to scanning? It sounds to me like you're just
>> > (ab)using scan as a somewhat convenient "do some channel hopping" API
>> > ...
>> >
>> 
>> Whether this can be used under "iw offchannel" with
>> NL80211_CMD_REMAIN_ON_CHANNEL?
> 
> Are you asking if I would accept wide
> channel extensions to R-O-C?

Yes, adding bandwidth config to existing command.

Something like this,

iw offchannel <freq> [HT40+|HT40-|80MHz] <duration>

> Still I guess I'd like to see an actual reason for it.

Wide band scan is actually moving to a off-channel for a
specified duration to capture 40, 80Mhz data frames.

So, I hope offchannel would accommodate this extension.

-- 
Thanks,
Sathishkumar

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