From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.172]:60496 "EHLO ns3.lanforge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753628Ab1FBTPR (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jun 2011 15:15:17 -0400 Message-ID: <4DE7E13D.60701@candelatech.com> (sfid-20110602_211531_225604_92EA2C9C) Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:15:09 -0700 From: Ben Greear MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" CC: Johannes Berg , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] wireless: Support can-scan-one logic. References: <1305586296-23147-1-git-send-email-greearb@candelatech.com> <1305759738.8827.6.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> <4DD4569C.7080303@candelatech.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 06/02/2011 12:12 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Ben Greear wrote: >> On 05/18/2011 04:02 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 15:51 -0700, greearb@candelatech.com wrote: >>>> >>>> From: Ben Greear >>>> >>>> Enable this by passing a -1 for a scan frequency. >>> >>> I still don't think we should do that, especially not with -1. That's >>> totally non-netlink like inband signalling. I'll also reply to your >>> other mail though since I don't think it makes sense to have this sort >>> of convenience function in the kernel. >> >> It's virtually impossible (as far as I can tell) to carry an >> out-of-tree netlink patch that uses a new netlink message >> and still keep things backwards-compat when someone adds a >> new message to the upstream kernel. So, the -1 hack works >> well for me. >> >> If it were to go into the kernel proper, then we could >> add a proper flag to the netlink API and start using >> that. >> >> If you just don't like the feature, thats OK...it is a pretty >> specialized feature, and easy enough to carry in my own tree. > > Since this shit was merged can you add a respective documentation > extension for the command for nl80211.h? You un-merged it almost immediately, as far as I can tell. What tree is it merged in? Thanks, Ben > > Luis -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com