Hi, > -----Original Message----- > From: Jouni Malinen <j@xxxxx> > Sent: Monday, April 18, 2022 18:20 > To: Peer, Ilan <ilan.peer@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] scan: Add a configuration option to disable 6GHz > collocated scanning > > On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 05:21:59PM +0300, Ilan Peer wrote: > > This configuration option can be used to disable 6GHz collocated scan > > logic which would result with passively scanning 6GHz non PSC channels. > > Is this really something we should do as a configuration option? Is the default > behavior to scan only the 6 GHz channels that are either PSC or that have > been determined to have a BSS based on neighbor report? And is that > somehow conditional on active vs. passive scanning? > > I could understand having a need for a specific SCAN command that will scan > all 6 GHz channels passively, but it would seem more reasonable to do that > with a SCAN control interface command argument instead of a configuration > parameter that applies to all scan operations. Isn't it way too slow to scan all > non-PSC channels on the 6 GHz using a passive scan for normal use? > This was requested as testing option by Ben. I agree that extending the scan command to force passively scanning 6GHz channels makes more sense. I'll prepare such a change. Regards, Ilan. _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
