bcm4329 background scanning

bcm4329 background scanning

[Viral Mehta]

Hi,

I was looking at bcm4329 driver to understand how scanning is happening ?

I have two questions,
1. Does bcm4329 supports background scanning ?

from looking at the code, it looks like NO

2. Then when I am trying to connect from my Android phone to WiFi (which uses bcm4329 driver), it connects automatically to
     preconfigured APs. I do not see any code which initiates scanning ?

     Also is this related to patch here, [force scan when driver is loaded]
     https://www.codeaurora.org/gitweb/quic/le/?p=kernel/msm.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=135bb396901003c7644bfc6004edec1f413b973a

I am also not able to understand the patch as well. I do not see where it is initiating the scan.
However, I am new to wireless driver things and may be my questions may sound very basic.

Thanks,
Viral

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Re: bcm4329 background scanning

[Rafał Miłecki]

2011/6/7 Viral Mehta <Viral.Mehta@lntinfotech.com>:
> I was looking at bcm4329 driver to understand how scanning is happening ?
>
> I have two questions,
> 1. Does bcm4329 supports background scanning ?
>
> from looking at the code, it looks like NO

I think bcm4329 barely maintained and noone really work on it.

Did you think about switching to brcmfmac? It receives some love from
Broadcom and it's more probably you will get some help with this one.

-- 
Rafał

Re: bcm4329 background scanning

[Henry Ptasinski]

On 06/07/2011 02:51 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> 2011/6/7 Viral Mehta<Viral.Mehta@lntinfotech.com>:
>> I was looking at bcm4329 driver to understand how scanning is happening ?
>>
>> I have two questions,
>> 1. Does bcm4329 supports background scanning ?
>>
>> from looking at the code, it looks like NO
>
> I think bcm4329 barely maintained and noone really work on it.
>
> Did you think about switching to brcmfmac? It receives some love from
> Broadcom and it's more probably you will get some help with this one.
>


bcm4329 is supported and maintained.  brcmfmac came from the same 
codebase, and can be considered the evolution of bcm4329 for longer-term 
usage (eventually ...)

bcm4329 questions should probably go to the appropriate android list vs. 
linux-wireless, but I'll forward them and see if I can get some answers.

- Henry