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Re: [RFC] mac80211_hwsim: notify user-space about channel change.

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On Tue, 2015-03-31 at 08:56 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:

> > Well, depends. Our driver just asks the firmware to do the scan, and it
> > will do all the scheduling by itself, i.e. it'll go through the channels
> > at convenient times etc.
> 
> I do not want to offload scanning in user-space, which is the equivalent
> of what your driver is doing as far as the kernel is concerned?  If someone wants
> to do that in the future, then sure, they can implement such a thing.

Well, the question isn't really that offloading, the question is what
happens with the hw-scan logic in hwsim? Though I guess now that I think
about it, that wouldn't show up in userspace at all with your changes.

johannes

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