Re: mrv8k vs. mac80211

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

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On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 13:25 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:00:21PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > mrv8k has commands that should be sent before a scan is started, and
> > after a scan has finished.  There aren't really pre/post scan hooks in
> > mac80211, though there certainly could be without too much trouble.  The
> > other possibility is to inspect the filter flags when
> > ops->configure_filter gets called, since FIF_BCN_PRBRESP_PROMISC gets
> > flipped before and after the scan.  But that seems ugly and unstable.
> > 
> > Any objections to adding ops->pre_scan and ops->post_scan hooks?  Or
> > should I just use the configure_filter hack...  or is there a better
> > way?
> 
> The pre/post hooks make sense to me...Johannes?

I don't know, sort of makes sense, but on the other hand the userspace
MLME just does it all manually anyway! What exactly do you have to do to
the hardware for scanning?

johannes

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