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From:   Siva Rebbagondla <siva8118@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 9 Jan 2019 08:15:47 +0530
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Subject: Re: [v4] rsi: add support for hardware scan offload
To:     Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Cc:     Linux Wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
        Prameela Rani Garnepudi <prameela.j04cs@gmail.com>,
        rishikesh.basu@redpinesignals.com,
        Siva Rebbagondla <siva.rebbagondla@redpinesignals.com>
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On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 10:24 PM Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> wrote:
>
> Siva Rebbagondla <siva8118@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > From: Prameela Rani Garnepudi <prameela.j04cs@gmail.com>
> >
> > With the current approach of scanning, roaming delays are observed.
> > Firmware has support for back ground scanning. To get this advantage,
> > mac80211 hardware scan is implemented, which decides type of scan to
> > do based on connected state.
> >
> > When station is in not connected, driver returns with special value 1
> > to trigger software scan in mac80211. In case of connected state,
> > background scan will be triggered.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Prameela Rani Garnepudi <prameela.j04cs@gmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Siva Rebbagondla <siva.rebbagondla@redpinesignals.com>
> > ---
> > changes in v4: renamed return value in hw_scan from "-EPERM" -> "1" [Jberg]
> > changes in v3: replaced rsi_prepare_probe_request() with ieee80211_probereq_get() [Kvalo]
> > changes in v2: none
>
> This depends on:
>
> e9da68ddea60 mac80211: allow hardware scan to fall back to software
>
> But that's in w-d-next now so this is safe to be apply.
>
> --
> Kalle Valo

Yes Kvalo, you can apply this patch to w-d-next.

Brgds,
Siva Rebbagondla