From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Scanning improvements for multiple VIFS.
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:10:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CE18592.8090804@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4b2689e6064549781b072ac8956bcc1a@localhost>
On 11/12/2010 09:19 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
>>> In nl80211_trigger_scan, if rdev->scan_req is != NULL,
>>> instead of returning EBUSY, what if we set a flag in
>>> the VIF that said "I want scan results too."
>>>
>>> Then, when whatever is scanning is finished, it would send
>>> scan results to all interested vifs.
>
> But the scans results could technically be different
> if they've been done on a different interface. Besides,
> you can handle it in userspace. You've been trying for
> weeks to avoid changing your userspace by changing the
> kernel, which is still the wrong approach.
I just attempted to start wpa_supplicant to control 30
STAs. It still seems to scan sequentially.
I guess I need to hack wpa_supplicant to cache scan
results?
Thanks,
Ben
>
> johannes
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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-12 23:23 Scanning improvements for multiple VIFS Ben Greear
2010-11-13 1:00 ` Ben Greear
2010-11-13 5:19 ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-13 18:19 ` Ben Greear
2010-11-15 19:10 ` Ben Greear [this message]
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