Re: [PATCH v2] wireless: Support can-scan-one logic.

["Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> 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<greearb@candelatech.com>
>>>
>>> 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?

  Luis