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: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:15:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1214306147.12270.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1214297745.8967.255.camel@johannes.berg>
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 10:55 +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.
>
> I'm not entirely against this, but does it mean the driver will not work
> with the userspace MLME that does scanning itself in userspace too?
Probably not? Both TopDog (linville's marvell.git and your
marvell.tar.bz2) both do this. It's too early to tell whether we can
get along without it since the driver isn't functional enough yet.
BTW, where'd you get marvell.tar.bz2 from?
Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-24 11:16 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 [this message]
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
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
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