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To: "Helmut Schaa" <hschaa@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Implement basic background scanning
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From: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:43:34 +0300
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Helmut Schaa <hschaa@suse.de> 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.

-- 
Kalle Valo