Return-path: Received: from he.sipsolutions.net ([78.46.109.217]:40197 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752373Ab0KETzF (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Nov 2010 15:55:05 -0400 To: Luciano Coelho Subject: Re: [RFC 06/15] mac80211: add support for HW periodic scan MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 20:55:03 +0100 From: Johannes Berg Cc: In-Reply-To: <1288987177.25600.15.camel@powerslave> References: <1288612336-2830-1-git-send-email-luciano.coelho@nokia.com> <1288612336-2830-7-git-send-email-luciano.coelho@nokia.com> <1288885537.3659.4.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> <1288987177.25600.15.camel@powerslave> Message-ID: <03639d1a6cc12b36b036145a8c31da33@localhost> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 21:59:37 +0200, Luciano Coelho wrote: > I think the idea of using background is good. Something like bg_scan or > something. The original idea was to call it background scan, but since > wl1271 doesn't support this while connected, I thought calling it > periodic scan would be slightly clearer about that. Background scan > sounds like you do it while connected (to me at least). Come to think of it though, we also call what we do when connected and trigger a scan manually a "background scan", so that's probably not a good name here. Not sure ... don't really have a good idea right now. johannes