From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jouni Malinen" Subject: Re: SIOCGIWSCAN wireless event behaviour Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:39:07 -0700 Message-ID: <20060420163907.GD1321@instant802.com> References: <4447979F.4050603@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: jt@hpl.hp.com, softmac-dev@sipsolutions.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from dhost002-28.dex002.intermedia.net ([64.78.21.113]:10946 "EHLO dhost002-28.dex002.intermedia.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751083AbWDTQjU (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:39:20 -0400 To: Daniel Drake Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4447979F.4050603@gentoo.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 03:15:59PM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: > I think the 'extra' SIOCGIWSCAN event may be confusing wpa_supplicant > (but have not confirmed that yet). No, they don't. madwifi-ng is already doing this with background scanning and as was pointed out, there can be multiple programs asking for scans, so user space must be prepared for multiple events anyway. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA