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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] nl80211: Introduce scan flags to emphasize
 requested scan behavior
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
        Sunil Dutt <usdutt@qti.qualcomm.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 15:50:00 +0100
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On Fri, 2017-12-22 at 18:33 +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> From: Sunil Dutt <usdutt@qti.qualcomm.com>
> 
> This commit defines new scan flags (LOW_SPAN, LOW_POWER, HIGH_LATENCY)
> to emphasize the requested scan behavior for the driver. These flags are
> optional and are mutually exclusive. The implementation of the
> respective functionality can be driver/hardware specific.
> 
> These flags can be used to control the compromise between how long a
> scan takes, how much power it uses, and high accurate/complete the scan
> is in finding the BSSs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sunil Dutt <usdutt@qti.qualcomm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
> ---
>  include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  net/wireless/nl80211.c       | 13 +++++++++++--
>  2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> v2:
> - added driver capability flags to indicate which of the options are
>   supported
> - added to this patch series due to a new dependency in one of the
>   header files

Looks fine, but I guess I should wait for a rebase.

johannes