Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:56738 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752709AbYFXI4e (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:56:34 -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: <1214149401.8585.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1214149401.8585.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-7gjJjkxcsgxqVsbgHdFk" Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:55:45 +0200 Message-Id: <1214297745.8967.255.camel@johannes.berg> (sfid-20080624_105637_951159_3F855BCB) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-7gjJjkxcsgxqVsbgHdFk Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. I'm not entirely against this, but does it mean the driver will not work with the userspace MLME that does scanning itself in userspace too? johannes --=-7gjJjkxcsgxqVsbgHdFk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJIYLaOAAoJEKVg1VMiehFYizEP/2Lk9+wwKZJJuFC123ddqtPM 6MoME02lfDKRTinMcOegWplTAS7yjE41o9m7t0pZ5MSG0HJGJNlSEouI2LwwUqUN xXtD0tHkLHKugDXFdWKGEk/d1qGa48eGXWD5bquSCyPNYOe1Nzvuh33MwiDMeV83 bTYvW1UEnvV61Gn3u1zN4p4zDw8XYCbY77aCitv4gvmNkJdazWxf+QGdG5feeULK Mvq6ofFOdwBFNVRwP4w//04qHsWwSxr41/EBa98ATBfmGKNnpXgNq9R50svzvkLo IFMZtX67/arp2iooScn0DUgvJyVUXZHBoPlS2HLgSj5RMljOFSfpfgjs1rW8eFjS pdWVBuR/laNLruReSeccGOKeHB80SbF2BxmnWMQai0vlWPSCqsOdCsgO0cN+oj7E y1tUSplX1Htf6vpWnLuGOOIS4Gc5FucG4ExKghxxRLOdLclUBM6lrR9c/h0ANn3N YRAQA+/4PgUyMpR4TVpNLHx8OXP/dT7ASR0lafN94vro+6ImJCtUx1yb3FERa+U6 SfL4s50W34469SUpbtHaveeGRpo7AIRe/GfL2dEgc9QWYSZrolXzL2MG4T7hQQSQ mmR/b/JLqijnY7uziCJNwhcifkfehQCU6Qm43gzgb69UH8vWOIpmmLD4T+rrn26U FMOJKBRi1bf05XnzvyUq =y3wV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-7gjJjkxcsgxqVsbgHdFk--