From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Jukka Rissanen <jukka.rissanen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nl80211: Stop scheduled scan if netlink client disappears
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 15:54:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1415717695.2163.6.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1415716059-608-1-git-send-email-jukka.rissanen@linux.intel.com> (sfid-20141111_152746_888050_18874AA2)
On Tue, 2014-11-11 at 16:27 +0200, Jukka Rissanen wrote:
> A new attribute NL80211_ATTR_SCAN_SOCKET_OWNER can be set by the
> scan initiator. If present, the attribute will cause the scan to
> be stopped if the client dies.
We already have NL80211_ATTR_IFACE_SOCKET_OWNER, maybe we can repurpose
this flag to a more general "owner" flag?
Of course we need to keep ABI (same attribute number) and API (a
#define) but that's not an issue.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-11 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-11 14:27 [PATCH] nl80211: Stop scheduled scan if netlink client disappears Jukka Rissanen
2014-11-11 14:54 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2014-11-11 14:56 ` Johannes Berg
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