On Thu, 2016-11-17 at 13:18 +0000, Arend van Spriel wrote: > Android employs a Wifi-HAL layer in its wireless frame. It basically > abstracts dealing with netlink messages from the framework. For some > features it employs nl80211 vendor commands. The goal I set myself is > to be able to have a generic nl80211 Wifi-HAL implementation. One of > the features currently requiring the vendor commands is g-scan. We > can only guess what the 'g' stands for ;-) This series converts the > vendor command api into common nl80211 api. Hehe :) We also have gscan API. If you're interested, you can see it here: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/backport-iwlwifi.git/tree/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/vendor-cmd.h#n96 > Before making an attempt to explain more about the g-scan > functionality first this. While I am still testing the driver > implementation resulting in numerous questions Dmitry send the email > below to bring a related discussion to the table..eh.. the linux- > wireless list. This is probably a good thing as anyone can dive in > and share their thoughts. Yeah. How does this overlap? Have you looked at it already? johannes
