Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:43556 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750749AbYIPJKN (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:10:13 -0400 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <877i9czdjd.fsf@nokia.com> References: <200809151416.07552.hschaa@suse.de> <200809151429.46638.hschaa@suse.de> <1221494383.3700.52.camel@johannes.berg> <200809151835.03786.hschaa@suse.de> <877i9czdjd.fsf@nokia.com> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:10:10 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: [RFC] Implement basic background scanning From: "Johannes Berg" To: "Kalle Valo" Cc: "Helmut Schaa" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Kalle Valo wrote: > Helmut Schaa writes: > >>> This doesn't play well at all with hardware assisted scan as far as I >>> can tell. >> >> Correct. The patch only adapts software scan code. The hardware >> assisted scan is not touched at all but should also not be affected >> in an odd way. > > I would guess that some firmwares support similar scanning in > hardware. In the future we might add support for background scanning > in hardware with a flag in hw_scan(), or something like that. I don't want to see this implemented without taking into account hw scan offload from the start. johannes