Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:31:02 +0300
From: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
To: Victor Goldenshtein <victorg@ti.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 3/5] nl80211/cfg80211: adding intermediate scan result
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On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 09:31:01AM +0300, Victor Goldenshtein wrote:
> You're right, cfg80211 drivers will not support it. As I couldn't
> find a way to know whether it mac or cfg based driver, I can add
> also IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_IM_RESULT" flag (as with cancel_scan) and
> then will advertise the nl80211 command if it set, is it OK?

Why would cfg80211 drivers not support this? There is already a pending
patch set to make ath6kl report scan results during the scan with
cfg80211_inform_bss_frame() so all it would need to do is to add another
call for cfg80211_send_intermediate_result() to support this... That
brings up a question: Do we need to have this new function or would it
be feasible for cfg80211 to generate the intermediate reports
automatically based on cfg80211_inform_bss{,_frame}() calls during the
scan?

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA