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[209.132.180.67]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id q18si8902935eju.333.2019.11.11.00.00.27; Mon, 11 Nov 2019 00:01:08 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 209.132.180.67 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.132.180.67; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; dkim=pass header.i=@codeaurora.org header.s=default header.b=HYFWrgGm; dkim=pass header.i=@codeaurora.org header.s=default header.b=HYFWrgGm; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 209.132.180.67 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726811AbfKKH5K (ORCPT + 99 others); Mon, 11 Nov 2019 02:57:10 -0500 Received: from smtp.codeaurora.org ([198.145.29.96]:35014 "EHLO smtp.codeaurora.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726808AbfKKH5K (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Nov 2019 02:57:10 -0500 Received: by smtp.codeaurora.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D06B4608CC; Mon, 11 Nov 2019 07:57:09 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=codeaurora.org; s=default; t=1573459029; bh=S7KBTQ03krYSdg5c3dcqLbjEuC0Jp7OQePSlRrVO7p4=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=HYFWrgGmClU1T9ySkNYxE0bE3Rx/rZSd86HBP3xCFJ1Lra4vd0rYwdc+eWda3c+aL jY+Qh9i0WKSqgnHPHsOoSd5gBWvQspmLrSEK5GNBtLOHUpMrjpfTplEBlWyTUAjUjK ZE3L07JrWh1iU7VFZDiEMQAkRdX2Xr7Ex88dX70o= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on pdx-caf-mail.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.7 required=2.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.codeaurora.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 634D66087D; Mon, 11 Nov 2019 07:57:09 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=codeaurora.org; s=default; t=1573459029; bh=S7KBTQ03krYSdg5c3dcqLbjEuC0Jp7OQePSlRrVO7p4=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=HYFWrgGmClU1T9ySkNYxE0bE3Rx/rZSd86HBP3xCFJ1Lra4vd0rYwdc+eWda3c+aL jY+Qh9i0WKSqgnHPHsOoSd5gBWvQspmLrSEK5GNBtLOHUpMrjpfTplEBlWyTUAjUjK ZE3L07JrWh1iU7VFZDiEMQAkRdX2Xr7Ex88dX70o= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 13:27:09 +0530 From: Sathishkumar Muruganandam To: Johannes Berg Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ath11k@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] add Wide Band Scan support In-Reply-To: <867302d58d3183ce7e2c7afa846027a787579b87.camel@sipsolutions.net> References: <1572869374-9635-1-git-send-email-murugana@codeaurora.org> <53d45563803b3f96be0d53731408cc3af028c510.camel@sipsolutions.net> <00d301d593c2$bd37d8f0$37a78ad0$@codeaurora.org> <867302d58d3183ce7e2c7afa846027a787579b87.camel@sipsolutions.net> Message-ID: <6ea305b2ac09c340181623a23cf4180b@codeaurora.org> X-Sender: murugana@codeaurora.org User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.2.5 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org On 2019-11-05 15:52, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Tue, 2019-11-05 at 15:51 +0530, Sathishkumar Muruganandam wrote: >> > Neither of these are scan use cases (at least not that are covered by >> > nl80211 scan APIs), so that doesn't make sense. >> > >> >> Actually we had extended the existing 'iw scan' command to do Wide >> Band Scan using nl80211 scan APIs. > > Yes ... but ... that doesn't address my question. > > How is this related to scanning? It sounds to me like you're just > (ab)using scan as a somewhat convenient "do some channel hopping" API > ... > Whether this can be used under "iw offchannel" with NL80211_CMD_REMAIN_ON_CHANNEL? Please provide your comments. -- Thanks, Sathishkumar