From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:37228 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752220AbYFXLUG (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:20:06 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] mac80211: add last beacon time in scan list From: Johannes Berg To: Dan Williams Cc: Tomas Winkler , linville@tuxdriver.com, yi.zhu@intel.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Emmanuel Grumbach In-Reply-To: <1214305753.12270.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1214303881-31525-1-git-send-email-tomas.winkler@intel.com> <1214303881-31525-2-git-send-email-tomas.winkler@intel.com> <1214303881-31525-3-git-send-email-tomas.winkler@intel.com> <1214303881-31525-4-git-send-email-tomas.winkler@intel.com> <1214304433.8967.277.camel@johannes.berg> <1214305753.12270.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-TKeu45gYZ0YxZZ6uc7bg" Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:19:16 +0200 Message-Id: <1214306356.8967.285.camel@johannes.berg> (sfid-20080624_132018_558236_713C1893) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-TKeu45gYZ0YxZZ6uc7bg Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 07:09 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 12:47 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 13:38 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote: > > > From: Emmanuel Grumbach > > >=20 > > > This patch adds the interval between the scan results and the last ti= me a > > > beacon was received in the result of the scan. > >=20 > > Why do we need this? >=20 > Sometimes it's nice to see when the beacon was last seen, since the > driver holds onto BSSs for a while, you don't know how long they've been > in the scan list. If you only cared about the newest BSSs you could use > this to ignore certain APs from the scan list. Well, but you can't really do it in a program since it's a custom type, or you'd have to parse this. > Would be nice to push this attribute back with nl80211 as well. If anybody ever implements anything there... johannes --=-TKeu45gYZ0YxZZ6uc7bg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJIYNgwAAoJEKVg1VMiehFYsyUP/3NDh3g9456+xG3MvFttgUiq tghOiZk56wWe2/ozKiKnm7H4qX2YjADOloDfu9oHYugM1bULMyUiKIwI3UHAt6s2 flaTHbGqNWx7Xg51mMaLSxx62p+SLFEl4Z94P62Ae97Z3QnQWMYIie6uU14N9xPH PlDClUknnVem2vUA2ghKg7oIur8/ZteQpJew8M2plfXruwBfccfABAoMEGxRjTIj X/YPPwY6g7BJe4mgv9lUBWlcLAuUbl6Mtn/TfckOb9Zj5EBXMZaA4Q2h1sonbyy7 ya6x/ZV+sCHB5TEyFvD7qRRHwKn15uKA3nzJeSiPXlhf4zjPF2igUDa3u3l2LCZj psfSXMLhxo35eYb2F9jVoaKjA5RNwgzFjq7PnawnFw7uYE2zwHPecxShLDt+0WdY Na3sq7d+OdmdTsJwIgZj16qqpD8exkMCEflHTm6jRCKBZ4SLa48XdWb5ODkFHw0T PqxEcwJ0tffZOA8P54YPtLXsZh24cdJj/qJnIc2VgfKYIJMcf/EmjoExUPfN696a fjfheeQx97KOJAsKYt4Jg/zzuMmS8+MWtiSNm2+v/PkP5hZUZ2xl0+JBe6gGjM0p NSIfG0/mrXIeCg06rCBwPNL91CSDsUi4Nlb1d+SSuqPo3N+gMSFH9j+oB7/jjFw9 LuOGQiC1ZhIhFClq5/+6 =Xhk+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-TKeu45gYZ0YxZZ6uc7bg--