Re: [PATCH 3/3] cfg80211/nl80211: add interval attribute for scheduled scans

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 18:51 +0300, Luciano Coelho wrote:

> > > > 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.
> > 
> > Yeah, I could squish this with the previous patch (1/3), but I just
> > reckoned that patch was getting too big, so I decided to make a separate
> > one.
> > 
> > If this whole patch series is taken at the same time, I guess there
> > won't be backwards compatibility problems (except for bisecting,
> > maybe?).
> > 
> > Anyways, I'll leave it as your choice.  Squishing the patch is easy
> > enough. ;)
> 
> Ah, and one more thought... There's no driver implementing this at this
> point, so is there anything to really worry about?

Yeah, good point, no big deal. We can keep it -- I just didn't even
understand why Ben thought it would not be compatible but it makes sense
if you just look at the patch by itself.

johannes