Return-path: Received: from wolverine02.qualcomm.com ([199.106.114.251]:62744 "EHLO wolverine02.qualcomm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751589Ab2BPQh2 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:37:28 -0500 From: "Thiagarajan, Vasanthakumar" To: Johannes Berg CC: "linville@tuxdriver.com" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: RE: [RFC] cfg80211: Add an attribute in NL80211_CMD_SET_INTERFACE for bgscan interval Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:37:14 +0000 Message-ID: (sfid-20120216_173732_496366_56DDECB8) References: <1329404518-14063-1-git-send-email-vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>,<1329405673.3915.11.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> In-Reply-To: <1329405673.3915.11.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Johannes Berg [johannes@sipsolutions.net] Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 8:51 PM To: Thiagarajan, Vasanthakumar Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com; linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] cfg80211: Add an attribute in NL80211_CMD_SET_INTERFACE for bgscan interval On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 20:31 +0530, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote: > A new nl80211 netlink attribute %NL80211_ATTR_BGSCAN_INTERVAL in > NL80211_CMD_SET_INTERFACE is an u16 and has the time interval in > seconds at which the driver has to do the background scanning. > This can be used by drivers which handles the scanning and > roaming functionalities. Setting an interval of 0 may disable > the bgscan. > Huh? No way. We already have bgscan with explicit configuration. Oops, I think you are referring to NL80211_CMD_START_SCHED_SCAN?, i'll use this, thanks. Vasanth johannes