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Subject: Re: [RFC] cfg80211: Add an attribute in NL80211_CMD_SET_INTERFACE
 for bgscan interval
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>
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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.

johannes