Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:47396 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750805AbZIRRLp (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:11:45 -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: <200909181849.22302.hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de> References: <200909181849.22302.hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-nLCU3SAA2u19MahWI5hv" Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:10:42 -0700 Message-Id: <1253293842.4787.1.camel@johannes.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-nLCU3SAA2u19MahWI5hv Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 18:49 +0200, Holger Schurig wrote: > This attribute allows user-space to override or turn of the default > BSS expiration time for NL80211_CMD_GET_SCAN. >=20 > 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. johannes --=-nLCU3SAA2u19MahWI5hv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIbBAABAgAGBQJKs78PAAoJEODzc/N7+QmaRlgP9AuM+WImhXi9xof6o4G+AQUr ihYYMLZc5FMwmCC2XcO8TCtDSHSmw6aMEETLTTLDnBhqcNR3iPCQthQBP7PogXli /8BwlTn0rJYFGOtj9vhzMcXmuD4wDJUWWJ7WsJwn2ukovUcKhftMq86BJ1vthop4 B519jZkeTqk8DvebIFNabQrmzzavpmw0zu79Y9ZFzZ/pwnyJRT9oF6rG4uQInTPM HLkdjM0rSBjDvYlqUwKnJmoKur3N2YwYuVHeSPczqIUB9zUNyJcjMgiYJ85F2FXb GNTmniNu1XboLH5vmFphBpVY7Rx6bFmpDtBCJYnMPv6ZbBj/aUL6WEtx9b2hUlqK 4iuQn70eBIBDbqMhQ48Li16lYfurUKW+3MR+AJcgRoykbAnIsIN+NqxQqanm1EYI VfVFMYOhI7lFbnIorVxIKnNJLV/tq7DudLNd5JEfOcGNJJ9yhrmOfV5mWHquvmVa Z3PcfTQ4xHpV47Ahu/BWPYK0j0U5CeyMGiCgCth/QTLk8EcPSWIjpLwNHngByARf nSF3m8JARrSyWnfzrBL6fvUBW/YFp6akTmZqPKFqD+zjVOJYHrNyLq5zrVUri5/J 7okHjQTk/CJr6SD2ComOq6k4LmeFvB9lNLdpmb3dg07UwzSqw8K+v8lSKYbMEdAu OWGYEsLSRo37WOAR9fM= =VyRo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-nLCU3SAA2u19MahWI5hv--