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: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:09:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1221052167.4648.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1221033061.12266.10.camel@johannes.berg>
On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 09:51 +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.
>
> Was just talking to Sujith about something on IRC and realised that
> maybe this is required to turn off IBSS beaconing when leaving the
> channel for a scan?
Most cards to the beaconing in hardware/firmware with a given template,
right? If so this sounds quite plausible. Does beaconing not get
paused now?
Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-10 13:10 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
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 [this message]
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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