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Re: mrv8k vs. mac80211

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On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:00:21PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> mrv8k has commands that should be sent before a scan is started, and
> after a scan has finished.  There aren't really pre/post scan hooks in
> mac80211, though there certainly could be without too much trouble.  The
> other possibility is to inspect the filter flags when
> ops->configure_filter gets called, since FIF_BCN_PRBRESP_PROMISC gets
> flipped before and after the scan.  But that seems ugly and unstable.
> 
> Any objections to adding ops->pre_scan and ops->post_scan hooks?  Or
> should I just use the configure_filter hack...  or is there a better
> way?

The pre/post hooks make sense to me...Johannes?

John
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