From: Helmut Schaa <hschaa@suse.de>
To: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>
Subject: Re: Pondering: how to improve mac80211 roaming ...
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:26:11 +0200
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
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Am Mittwoch, 13. August 2008 16:18:13 schrieb Holger Schurig:
> > It might even be beneficial to cancel a currently active
> > background scan once the TX queue is filling up and report the
> > already gathered information to the user space.
>
> This brings policy into the kernel. Why should TX data be more
> important than a scan result?

I was only referring to background scanning not triggered by the user
space. If any user space application requests a scan it may of course
not be canceled due to TX data.