Re: [Query] Update mac80211 BSS info from cfg8011_bss_inform_frame when hw_scan is enabled

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Sun, 2013-11-17 at 18:43 +0530, Krishna Chaitanya wrote:

> > You're not supposed to even call cfg80211_bss_inform_frame() from a
> > mac80211-based driver. Just report the RX frame properly.

> Ours is a partial Full MAC driver which still uses mac80211 but mostly with
> offloads to HW.
> 
> With mac80211 + hw_scan if we just report the RX frames, then we are just
> eliminating the SCAN SM from mac80211, is this just to reduce the host
> cycles? (apart from speeding up the channel switch)

When you post the driver for upstream we can talk about it. I have no
interest in it otherwise - but

 (a) you can't call cfg80211 from the driver and then have cfg80211 call
mac80211
     - that's a gross layering violation
 (b) if you're offloading much, you're probably not using a lot of
mac80211 and
     should come with a proposal to refactor the code

johannes