From: David Kimdon <david.kimdon@devicescape.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Simon Barber <simon@devicescape.com>,
Jouni Malinen <jkm@devicescape.com>,
Hong Liu <hong.liu@intel.com>,
David Kimdon <david.kimdon@devicescape.com>,
Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>,
Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de>,
Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] d80211: fix scan issues with new ops
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 07:56:28 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061119155628.GA25061@devicescape.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1163895673.15473.11.camel@johannes.berg>
On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 01:21:13AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> If hardware shall do scanning, the hw_scan operation must be set. However,
> if the driver is for multiple cards that may or may not do hardware
> scanning, it'll need a flag.
What is wrong with the driver setting the function pointer to NULL for
the cards that do not support scanning? Where does this requirment
come from that the function pointers in struct ieee80211_wiphy be
identical for all cards?
-David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-19 15:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-17 22:27 [PATCH 0/10] d80211: move away from wmaster towards wiphy Johannes Berg
2006-11-17 22:50 ` [PATCH] d80211: remove useless driver name field Johannes Berg
2006-11-20 18:32 ` Jouni Malinen
2006-11-20 18:40 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-20 22:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-11-20 22:33 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-20 18:44 ` Michael Wu
2006-11-17 23:24 ` [PATCH 0/10] d80211: move away from wmaster towards wiphy Pavel Roskin
2006-11-18 0:16 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-18 23:53 ` [PATCH] d80211: remove IEEE80211_CONF_SW_{EN,DE}CRYPT Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 16:16 ` Michael Buesch
2006-11-19 0:04 ` [PATCH] d80211: remove calib_int Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 0:21 ` [PATCH] d80211: fix scan issues with new ops Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 15:56 ` David Kimdon [this message]
2006-11-19 16:34 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 16:50 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 16:55 ` David Kimdon
2006-11-19 16:57 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 17:25 ` David Kimdon
2006-11-19 17:54 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 16:15 ` Michael Buesch
2006-11-19 16:35 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 19:18 ` [PATCH 0/13] move d80211 away from netdev towards wiphy Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 19:22 ` [PATCH 1/13] d80211: clean up some stupid list and loop code Johannes Berg
2006-11-20 11:01 ` Jiri Benc
2006-11-20 11:58 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-20 18:55 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 19:23 ` [PATCH 2/13] d80211: reduce mdev usage Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 19:23 ` [PATCH 3/13] " Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 19:26 ` [PATCH 4/13] d80211: reduce mdev usage, change ieee80211_rx_mgmt Johannes Berg
2006-11-20 12:08 ` Jiri Benc
2006-11-20 12:25 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 19:27 ` [PATCH 5/13] d80211: reduce master ieee80211_ptr deref in scan routines Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 19:28 ` [PATCH 6/13] d80211: change the identifier netdev to ieee80211_hw Johannes Berg
2006-11-20 17:57 ` Jiri Benc
2006-11-20 18:04 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-20 18:52 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-20 22:45 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-21 17:48 ` [PATCH] d80211: use ieee80211_hw.dev Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 19:29 ` [PATCH 7/13] d80211: add a perm_addr hardware property Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 23:20 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-20 18:54 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 19:29 ` [PATCH 8/13] d80211: introduce IEEE80211_HW_FRAG flag Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 19:30 ` [PATCH 9/13] d80211: remove useless driver name field Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 19:31 ` [PATCH 10/13] bcm43xx: update to new d80211 driver API Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 19:43 ` Michael Buesch
2006-11-19 19:52 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 19:31 ` [PATCH 11/13] d80211: remove IEEE80211_CONF_SW_{EN,DE}CRYPT Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 19:32 ` [PATCH 12/13] d80211: remove calib_int Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 19:33 ` [PATCH 13/13] d80211: fix scan issues with new ops Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 23:32 ` [PATCH 0/13] move d80211 away from netdev towards wiphy Johannes Berg
2006-11-20 19:14 ` Jiri Benc
2006-11-22 19:18 ` [RFC 0/3] more power to cfg80211 Johannes Berg
2006-11-22 19:22 ` [RFC 1/3] cfg80211: handle wiphy, use wiphy in netdev, do wiphy sysfs Johannes Berg
2006-11-22 19:24 ` [RFC 2/3] d80211: use new wiphy stuff from cfg80211 Johannes Berg
2006-11-22 19:25 ` [RFC 3/3] bcm43xx: API update Johannes Berg
2006-12-11 13:03 ` [RFC 0/3] more power to cfg80211 Jiri Benc
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