From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:44629 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751498AbXLLPiY (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:38:24 -0500 Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:38:19 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20071212.073819.49869597.davem@davemloft.net> (sfid-20071212_153827_208611_A5BAE5FF) To: dcbw@redhat.com Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, jt@hpl.hp.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] introduce WEXT scan capabilities From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1197473107.12484.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1197473107.12484.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Dan Williams Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:25:07 -0500 > Introduce scan capabilities to WEXT so that userspace can do intelligent > things with scan behavior such as handling hidden SSIDs more gracefully. > If the driver reports a specific scan capability, the driver must > respect the options specified in the iw_scan_req structure when handling > the SIOCSIWSCAN call, unless it's mode or state does not allow it to do > so, in which case it must return an error. > > This version switches to Dave Kilroy's suggestion of claiming unused > padding space for the scan_capa field. > > Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Ok, I'm fine with this.