From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mms2.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.18]:3519 "EHLO mms2.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932269Ab1FGWY0 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jun 2011 18:24:26 -0400 Message-ID: <4DEEA506.4070309@broadcom.com> (sfid-20110608_002430_280742_052D33C1) Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 15:24:06 -0700 From: "Henry Ptasinski" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= cc: "Viral Mehta" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: bcm4329 background scanning References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 06/07/2011 02:51 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > 2011/6/7 Viral Mehta: >> 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