From: Dave <kilroyd@googlemail.com>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
orinoco-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/19] orinoco: Add ESSID specific scanning for Agere fw
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:29:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4899FB91.8070501@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1218028414.16977.5.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 18:48 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
>> The userspace is welcome to keep a pool of all APs found by any scans,
>> but I don't think drivers should do it.
>
> Drivers need to keep a reasonably complete list of APs internally for
> association anyway. You don't want to have to do a full scan just to
> associate if you have results from 10 seconds ago that are still valid.
This is not an issue for orinoco cards, as the firmware selects the AP to use independently of any driver scanning. The requirement to use ap_scan=2 means that wpa_supplicant doesn't need to look at the scan results either (except maybe to verify the configuration matches).
> Furthermore, drivers need to keep cached results so that two processes
> can request results of a scan after the scan is complete.
But this does apply to orinoco.
Regards,
Dave.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-06 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-02 10:14 [PATCH 00/19] orinoco: WPA for Agere based cards kilroyd
2008-08-02 10:14 ` [PATCH 01/19] orinoco: Add ESSID specific scanning for Agere fw kilroyd
2008-08-02 10:14 ` [PATCH 02/19] orinoco: Update scan translation kilroyd
2008-08-02 10:14 ` [PATCH 03/19] orinoco: Specify all three parameters to every Hermes command kilroyd
2008-08-02 10:14 ` [PATCH 04/19] orinoco: Move EXPORT_SYMBOL declarations next to exported function kilroyd
2008-08-02 10:14 ` [PATCH 05/19] orinoco: Add function to execute Hermes initialisation commands synchronously kilroyd
2008-08-02 10:14 ` [PATCH 06/19] orinoco: Move firmware download functionality into new module kilroyd
2008-08-02 10:14 ` [PATCH 07/19] orinoco: Make firmware download logic more generic kilroyd
2008-08-02 10:14 ` [PATCH 08/19] orinoco: Extend hermes_dld routines for Agere firmware kilroyd
2008-08-02 10:14 ` [PATCH 09/19] orinoco: Invoke firmware download in main driver kilroyd
2008-08-02 10:14 ` [PATCH 10/19] orinoco: Fix transmit for Agere/Lucent with fw 9.x kilroyd
2008-08-02 10:14 ` [PATCH 11/19] orinoco: address checkpatch typedef warning kilroyd
2008-08-02 10:14 ` [PATCH 12/19] orinoco: Use extended Agere scans available on 9.x series firmwares kilroyd
2008-08-02 10:14 ` [PATCH 13/19] orinoco: Don't use boolean parameter to record encoding type kilroyd
2008-08-02 10:14 ` [PATCH 14/19] orinoco: Split wevent work thread from wevent sending kilroyd
2008-08-02 10:14 ` [PATCH 15/19] orinoco: Use a macro to define wireless handlers kilroyd
2008-08-02 10:14 ` [PATCH 16/19] orinoco: Add WE-18 ioctls for WPA kilroyd
2008-08-02 10:14 ` [PATCH 17/19] orinoco: Send association events to userspace kilroyd
2008-08-02 10:14 ` [PATCH 18/19] orinoco: Process bulk of receive interrupt in a tasklet kilroyd
2008-08-02 10:14 ` [PATCH 19/19] orinoco: Add MIC on TX and check on RX kilroyd
2008-08-02 10:22 ` [PATCH 15/19] orinoco: Use a macro to define wireless handlers kilroyd
2008-08-04 4:48 ` [PATCH 01/19] orinoco: Add ESSID specific scanning for Agere fw Pavel Roskin
2008-08-04 15:34 ` Dan Williams
2008-08-05 16:22 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2008-09-02 23:06 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2008-09-08 12:48 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-09-08 16:45 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2008-09-08 18:32 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2008-09-09 18:37 ` Dave
2008-09-09 19:33 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2008-09-09 21:20 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-09-09 21:44 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2008-09-13 4:17 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-09-15 21:17 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2008-08-05 21:15 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-08-05 21:50 ` Dave
2008-08-05 21:55 ` Dan Williams
2008-08-05 22:48 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-08-06 13:13 ` Dan Williams
2008-08-06 13:48 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-08-06 19:26 ` Dave
2008-08-06 19:29 ` Dave [this message]
2008-08-06 20:56 ` Dan Williams
2008-08-06 21:03 ` Dan Williams
2008-08-06 21:08 ` Dave
2008-08-07 2:48 ` Dan Williams
2008-08-07 18:43 ` Dave
2008-08-07 19:42 ` Dan Williams
2008-08-07 20:17 ` Dave
2008-08-07 20:46 ` Dan Williams
2008-08-07 21:08 ` Dave
2008-08-08 14:51 ` Dan Williams
2008-08-04 3:57 ` [PATCH 00/19] orinoco: WPA for Agere based cards Pavel Roskin
2008-08-04 23:09 ` Dave
2008-08-04 23:28 ` Dan Williams
2008-08-06 0:37 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-08-06 18:33 ` Dave
2008-08-06 21:01 ` Dan Williams
2008-08-07 8:06 ` Jouni Malinen
2008-08-06 21:28 ` [PATCH 12/19] orinoco: Use extended Agere scans available on 9.x series firmwares kilroyd
2008-08-05 22:38 ` [Orinoco-devel] [PATCH 00/19] orinoco: WPA for Agere based cards Pavel Roskin
2008-08-08 0:02 ` Dave
2008-08-05 22:59 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-08-05 23:46 ` Dave
2008-08-06 0:41 ` [Orinoco-devel] " Pavel Roskin
2008-08-05 22:22 ` [PATCH 07/19] orinoco: Make firmware download logic more generic kilroyd
2008-08-05 22:22 ` [PATCH 09/19] orinoco: Invoke firmware download in main driver kilroyd
2008-08-05 22:22 ` [PATCH 12/19] orinoco: Use extended Agere scans available on 9.x series firmwares kilroyd
2008-08-20 19:28 ` [PATCH 00/19] orinoco: WPA for Agere based cards John W. Linville
2008-08-20 20:49 ` Dave
2008-08-20 21:06 ` Larry Finger
2008-08-20 21:07 ` Johannes Berg
2008-08-20 21:22 ` Johannes Berg
2008-08-20 23:07 ` Dave
2008-08-21 6:42 ` Johannes Berg
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