Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:42105 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751353AbZIUHPh (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:15:37 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC] nl80211: introduce NL80211_ATTR_SCAN_EXPIRE From: Johannes Berg To: Holger Schurig Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , John W Linville In-Reply-To: <200909210842.59852.hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de> References: <200909181849.22302.hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de> <1253293842.4787.1.camel@johannes.local> <200909210842.59852.hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-mzPDqYgvbMFskAeBoJqy" Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:15:33 -0700 Message-Id: <1253517333.4458.7.camel@johannes.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-mzPDqYgvbMFskAeBoJqy Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 08:42 +0200, Holger Schurig wrote: > > > It also allows to set an expiration for > > > NL80211_CMD_TRIGGER_SCAN. Setting the expiration to 0 will > > > clean the whole BSS list. > > > > tbh, I don't really understand the need for it. changing your > > AP settings doesn't seem like a use case anyone would really > > care about that much. >=20 > Turning of an AP is one way making the AP vanish. >=20 > Sitting into a fork-lift and driving throught a ware-house hall=20 > is another way to accomplish the same. It's not actually the same, and you didn't explain that well. You care about the disappear case, but you made it sound like you cared about the _reappear_ case. However, I still don't believe that you need to change anything in the kernel, just get wpa_supplicant to handle it properly. johannes --=-mzPDqYgvbMFskAeBoJqy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAABAgAGBQJKtygQAAoJEODzc/N7+QmaOucQAIh5imM1/t5O8kxeU02bg9Br s4rIQbzflP9w708vH1okjGZ4GWCoP/Ud7TQbsbzMUJUjMO1JUVD43gVp2X7Fcgbq zgAYZQJtwRVlGG3MtRRC1QvVN9qW19Yb5vQfnrA5j1+T4kExKvwfPFTFjrtZ0j3O 6b3BVd/di1bomgteK/1526j28b/DEpmqcgwXmkstWkhRlk666j6DVuHXTNr2w1+T o7WPhVh0VUWzZUpLaXady1nK24wSKzS1fiajxa4oUwdWv1HlLDoGZMxhjwzHTDjk ZrSdB8yn/9MOjBYqoFUjy5JeLquoOND2jouuwdoJHhPYzYh0dMs007Vfsnod8wOT 8j1+y7KzFV+JyzC9gA0k4fEhwk07Vc1dLx+dH6GVsstBlw0M1qUmLyxyIIxslxLG hZfexQEk133K1mljQBHOmszcLPTxX16dVyPpLg/cqItOiYXimDmjUbI9JjLzv6tP 4Bs+Uc2c9nvPet1moEvJ7GFpeWHbLgJzlMiAOvt1e4YeQddZ4BXKI7zorx4yDVgr xo+ugjT/697wmGQFrgBR/jpbXXMAisUow85/dtU4XbMHY1pUMT9x/RKrss5Q6X/F cY1mqU46enEn9OxSpI/2Vs7B162JmqccNJwONWohxS9ospK0bhybWc+HTBiYN1dM bxLgbELLI58RCz8UYr8J =SF1Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-mzPDqYgvbMFskAeBoJqy--