From: Helmut Schaa <hschaa@suse.de>
To: "Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "Kalle Valo" <kalle.valo@nokia.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Implement basic background scanning
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:20:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200809161120.09728.hschaa@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b2d017be9e6908538faef3d96845500c.squirrel@secure.sipsolutions.net>
Am Dienstag, 16. September 2008 11:10:10 schrieb Johannes Berg:
> Kalle Valo wrote:
> > Helmut Schaa <hschaa@suse.de> writes:
> >>> This doesn't play well at all with hardware assisted scan as far as I
> >>> can tell.
> >>
> >> Correct. The patch only adapts software scan code. The hardware
> >> assisted scan is not touched at all but should also not be affected
> >> in an odd way.
> >
> > I would guess that some firmwares support similar scanning in
> > hardware. In the future we might add support for background scanning
> > in hardware with a flag in hw_scan(), or something like that.
>
> I don't want to see this implemented without taking into account hw scan
> offload from the start.
Ok, would you accept a hardware flag that indicates if a card is able to
do background scanning? And if the flag is not set we could just use a
software background scan as fallback?
Helmut
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-16 9:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-15 12:16 More thoughts about roaming Helmut Schaa
2008-09-15 12:29 ` [RFC] Implement basic background scanning Helmut Schaa
2008-09-15 14:32 ` Michael Buesch
2008-09-15 14:40 ` Helmut Schaa
2008-09-15 15:59 ` Johannes Berg
2008-09-15 16:35 ` Helmut Schaa
2008-09-16 8:43 ` Kalle Valo
2008-09-16 9:10 ` Johannes Berg
2008-09-16 9:20 ` Helmut Schaa [this message]
2008-09-16 11:06 ` Johannes Berg
2008-09-16 9:15 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-09-15 12:35 ` [RFC] mac80211: notify the user space about low signal quality Helmut Schaa
2008-09-15 14:07 ` Dan Williams
2008-09-15 14:34 ` Helmut Schaa
2008-09-15 15:28 ` Dan Williams
2008-09-15 16:45 ` Helmut Schaa
2008-09-16 1:21 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-09-16 7:41 ` Helmut Schaa
2008-09-16 8:07 ` Kalle Valo
2008-09-16 8:12 ` Johannes Berg
2008-09-16 8:55 ` Kalle Valo
2008-09-23 18:21 ` John W. Linville
2008-09-16 8:00 ` Kalle Valo
2008-09-16 7:57 ` Kalle Valo
2008-09-15 15:10 ` Holger Schurig
2008-09-15 15:19 ` Dan Williams
2008-09-16 8:25 ` Kalle Valo
2008-09-16 8:50 ` Holger Schurig
2008-09-16 9:25 ` Helmut Schaa
2008-09-16 9:32 ` Helmut Schaa
2008-09-16 10:23 ` Holger Schurig
2008-09-15 15:17 ` Holger Schurig
2008-09-16 7:53 ` Kalle Valo
2008-09-15 12:41 ` [RFC] wpa_supplicant: trigger a scan if signal quality is low Helmut Schaa
2008-09-15 13:59 ` More thoughts about roaming Dan Williams
2008-09-15 14:18 ` Helmut Schaa
2008-09-15 14:45 ` Dan Williams
2008-09-16 7:09 ` Kalle Valo
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