From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Sushant Kumar Mishra <sushant2k1513@gmail.com>
Cc: Sushant Kumar Mishra <sushant.mishra@redpinesignals.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Amitkumar Karwar <amit.karwar@redpinesignals.com>,
Siva Rebbagondla <siva.rebbagondla@redpinesignals.com>,
Sanjay Kumar Konduri <sanjay.konduri@redpinesignals.com>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: invoke software scan when hardware scan returns EPERM
Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 14:27:27 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lgcjkfhc.fsf@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1526468599-14665-1-git-send-email-sushant2k1513@gmail.com> (Sushant Kumar Mishra's message of "Wed, 16 May 2018 16:33:18 +0530")
Sushant Kumar Mishra <sushant2k1513@gmail.com> writes:
> From: Sanjay Kumar Konduri <sanjay.konduri@redpinesignals.com>
>
> Currently, software scan in mac80211 is used by drivers, which don't
> implement hardware scan. However some drivers which have implemented
> hardware scan may also sometimes want to use software scan in mac80211.
> Such drivers can return '-EPERM' and ask mac80211 to fallback to
> software scan with this patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sanjay Kumar Konduri <sanjay.konduri@redpinesignals.com>
> Signed-off-by: Siva Rebbagondla <siva.rebbagondla@redpinesignals.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sushant Kumar Mishra <sushant.mishra@redpinesignals.com>
This and the following rsi patch should in the same patchset as there's
a dependency. This being patch 1 and "rsi: add support for hardware scan
offload" patch 2.
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches#sending_large_patches_or_multiple_patches
Also Johanne's address (Johannes@codeaurora.org, "Berg
<johannes"@sipsolutions.net) looked bogus so I fixed it.
--
Kalle Valo
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2018-05-16 11:27 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
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2018-05-16 11:33 ` [v2] rsi: add support for hardware scan offload Kalle Valo
2018-05-16 12:24 ` sushant kumar mishra
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