On Thu, 2015-11-05 at 07:41 +0100, Michal Kazior wrote: > On 5 November 2015 at 00:58, Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > It looks to me like the channel dwell time when scanning (SW > > scanning, > > mac80211) > > is fixed at 1/9 of a second. I'd like to make this > > configurable...is that > > something > > that might be welcome upstream? > > > > My plan is to add to the netlink API around starting a scan and > > allow > > user-space to > > configure a dwell time in milliseconds. > > I've actually tried doing something like this some time ago: > > - http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/111255 > - http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/111251 > And as I said back then, I'm rather opposed to this. We risk adding API that either nobody uses, or that ends up getting used in ways that weren't intended (say for certain measurements) and then will break things when scanning is changed in firmware, etc. Let the scanning be. It's intended to find networks, not really something else. Piggy-backing survey onto it was mostly a mistake. For other things, do some more reasonable measurement commands. johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
