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Subject: Re: [RFC 2/3] mac80211: Support scanning only current active
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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 09:32 -0800, greearb@candelatech.com wrote:

> -	ieee80211_offchannel_stop_beaconing(local);
> +	if (local->ops->sw_scan_start_cur &&
> +	    local->scan_req->n_channels == 1 &&
> +	    local->scan_req->channels[0] == local->hw.conf.channel) {
> +		__set_bit(SCAN_ON_CUR_CHANNEL, &local->scanning);
> +		drv_sw_scan_start_cur(local, true);
> +	} else
> +		drv_sw_scan_start(local);

This doesn't seem to make much sense either -- even if we do a scan over
multiple channels we should be able to optimise the part on the current
channel (maybe put it at the beginning or end too).

johannes