Return-path: Received: from comal.ext.ti.com ([198.47.26.152]:52231 "EHLO comal.ext.ti.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753064Ab0KKPdv (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:33:51 -0500 Message-ID: <4CDC0CBA.30201@ti.com> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:33:14 +0200 From: Gery Kahn Reply-To: geryk@ti.com MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johannes Berg CC: Luciano Coelho , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [RFC 06/15] mac80211: add support for HW periodic scan 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> <03639d1a6cc12b36b036145a8c31da33@localhost> In-Reply-To: <03639d1a6cc12b36b036145a8c31da33@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 11/05/2010 09:55 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: > > 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 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html It may be sched_scan