From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: greearb@candelatech.com
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/3] mac80211: Support sw_scan_start_cur
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:37:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1295545044.3693.43.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1295544750-6704-1-git-send-email-greearb@candelatech.com>
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 09:32 -0800, greearb@candelatech.com wrote:
> From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
>
> This method is called when driver can support
> scanning the currect active channel without otherwise
> impeding traffic on that channel. The mac80211 scan
> logic may call this when we are only scanning on the
> active channel and thus do not need to go off channel.
I frankly don't see any point telling the driver about this. Looking at
the ath9k patch you sent, it seems to avoid some things like flushing --
but the flushing should be controlled by mac80211 already (or converted
to be) so that it's not necessary to have this.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-20 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-20 17:32 [RFC 1/3] mac80211: Support sw_scan_start_cur greearb
2011-01-20 17:32 ` [RFC 2/3] mac80211: Support scanning only current active channel greearb
2011-01-20 17:39 ` Johannes Berg
2011-01-20 18:06 ` Ben Greear
2011-01-20 18:17 ` Johannes Berg
2011-01-20 18:21 ` Ben Greear
2011-01-20 18:25 ` Johannes Berg
2011-01-20 19:14 ` Helmut Schaa
2011-01-21 4:39 ` Ben Greear
2011-01-21 5:42 ` Ben Greear
2011-01-20 17:32 ` [RFC 3/3] ath9k: Support scanning on current channel greearb
2011-01-20 17:37 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2011-01-20 17:52 ` [RFC 1/3] mac80211: Support sw_scan_start_cur Ben Greear
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