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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "Thiagarajan, Vasanthakumar" <vthiagar@qti.qualcomm.com>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Allow probe response frame rx to user space in AP mode
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 10:29:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1457515749.2042.0.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56DFB02A.5070207@qti.qualcomm.com>

On Wed, 2016-03-09 at 05:10 +0000, Thiagarajan, Vasanthakumar wrote:

> When an user space wants to have control over the duration of off-
> channel (single channel) scan it could use remain-on-channel
> interface instead of trigger_scan to perform off-channel scan. I dont
> think BSS cache will be updated with the BSS information received
> during remain-on-channel. In this case, user space could use probe
> response frames to build BSS list.
> 
That's not a use case, that's an implementation?

FWIW, we have patches pending to add some dwell time control for
scanning since it's required for some radio resource measurement
things. It seems like that would address your use case.

johannes

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-09  9:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-07  7:12 [PATCH] mac80211: Allow probe response frame rx to user space in AP mode Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2016-03-08 16:55 ` Johannes Berg
2016-03-09  5:10   ` Thiagarajan, Vasanthakumar
2016-03-09  9:29     ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2016-03-10  6:27       ` Thiagarajan, Vasanthakumar

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