Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:37310 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751808AbYFXLWl (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:22:41 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: add pre- and post-scan hooks From: Johannes Berg To: Dan Williams Cc: John Linville , linux-wireless In-Reply-To: <1214306147.12270.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1214149401.8585.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1214297745.8967.255.camel@johannes.berg> <1214306147.12270.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-9YPah+R8e9EfUqqvJvLD" Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:21:51 +0200 Message-Id: <1214306511.8967.288.camel@johannes.berg> (sfid-20080624_132243_984967_15F8AAA4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-9YPah+R8e9EfUqqvJvLD Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 07:15 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 10:55 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 11:43 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > > > mrv8k has commands that get called before and after the scan has been > > > done to save and restore hardware state. Add optional callbacks to > > > mac80211 to enable low-level drivers to know when the stack is about = to > > > start scanning, and when it's done. > >=20 > > I'm not entirely against this, but does it mean the driver will not wor= k > > with the userspace MLME that does scanning itself in userspace too? >=20 > Probably not? Both TopDog (linville's marvell.git and your > marvell.tar.bz2) both do this. It's too early to tell whether we can > get along without it since the driver isn't functional enough yet. Hm. Could we leave it out of mac80211 for now then until you know? > BTW, where'd you get marvell.tar.bz2 from? No idea, I don't remember, I could probably dig it up in my email but didn't find it quickly right now. johannes --=-9YPah+R8e9EfUqqvJvLD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJIYNjLAAoJEKVg1VMiehFYbZYP/1zVzRuYmqMt6ZCXIjU1zyxF JTlAibYOqFmhduZvC5XBlLI8IJWxFnN1aU16IXRfiIVIKUHtXk2j8HJ8kLd2L9LE A+diizjn2FuTdhgDPfqJwGky89K5c0FIr/xKzhKdjA92zteW6XhtLgF8oYYk+SKk mug0X7aeWhBmCRwZgHrA1L/+pW2R5k+t/DvGGxKhXtejQV25LfSwPg5XczodqW5P SQwb+WP1HlCEbkfwSdlqxPT5ArBwsT2PViqQu46lRIgY5Iwl9O21/mxb/fdHSFTm OB8v5Gf6DK2NNYPS+xepiKZVq1simujGj+9P1kFxeN05TiwpFPufPqYIEu92wgVp hdM5rs3x3JO+FQDIGu7LSPvB9yxtimIvKo0ED2SaTdHfsgZwzTXuJXsH1W7X7W8Q bBLAsWU0NYM//Z9SYZ5clVxdqJoL4Dsf8uybsbD40+txhlwxtqHHBGjLA8deCfu6 tM3m4OdeHNjfsxtXXNA34U6zDrDyWes8CD7PzC3hBhhMSf9KCfECv1S21CfFkxEd LIKw1A2ay/JstPwY9A/ikqWoewDpVkSf3XEPJRM2Vr3CLKEth/QHy/nWFPO4DcUx b6V366VcgEWX7h5j0me5HnY+M0O6Jw2gFE5OS1qsI2jEtE59vvssGfDP/03mY9Jr SyvVAL3gYtEiw7Lvu03k =uExX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-9YPah+R8e9EfUqqvJvLD--