From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] cfg80211/nl80211: add interval attribute for scheduled scans
Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 16:59:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1304607552.3594.8.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1304607500.3594.7.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20110505_165557_965402_0D829BAA)
On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 16:58 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 07:50 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> > On 05/05/2011 07:51 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 07:43 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> > >> On 05/05/2011 06:00 AM, Luciano Coelho wrote:
> > >>> Introduce NL80211_ATTR_SCHED_SCAN_INTERVAL as a required attribute for
> > >>> NL80211_CMD_START_SCHED_SCAN. This value informs the driver at which
> > >>> intervals the scheduled scan cycles should be executed.
> > >>
> > >> Please default to something useful instead of requiring
> > >> this so that things are backwards compatible.
> > >
> > > Backward compatible to what?
> >
> > To anything sending older style netlink messages?
>
> But this is a new feature, and a new command, so I don't quite
> understand why an application would think it can send it without the
> interval?
Oh wait, I guess you're right, or this should just be part of patch 1
instead so we never have the feature without the requirement to have the
interval given.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-05 14:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-05 13:00 [PATCH 0/3] cfg80211/mac80211: implementation of scheduled scan Luciano Coelho
2011-05-05 13:00 ` [PATCH 1/3] cfg80211/nl80211: add support for scheduled scans Luciano Coelho
2011-05-09 8:12 ` Johannes Berg
2011-05-09 8:17 ` Luciano Coelho
2011-05-09 8:23 ` Johannes Berg
2011-05-09 8:25 ` Luciano Coelho
2011-05-09 9:50 ` Eliad Peller
2011-05-09 13:59 ` Luciano Coelho
2011-05-05 13:00 ` [PATCH 2/3] mac80211: add support for HW scheduled scan Luciano Coelho
2011-05-09 8:22 ` Johannes Berg
2011-05-09 8:22 ` Johannes Berg
2011-05-09 13:38 ` Luciano Coelho
2011-05-05 13:00 ` [PATCH 3/3] cfg80211/nl80211: add interval attribute for scheduled scans Luciano Coelho
2011-05-05 14:43 ` Ben Greear
2011-05-05 14:51 ` Johannes Berg
2011-05-05 14:50 ` Ben Greear
2011-05-05 14:58 ` Johannes Berg
2011-05-05 14:59 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2011-05-05 15:48 ` Luciano Coelho
2011-05-05 15:51 ` Luciano Coelho
2011-05-05 16:13 ` Johannes Berg
2011-05-05 16:22 ` Ben Greear
2011-05-05 16:29 ` Luciano Coelho
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