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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: add pre- and post-scan hooks

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On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 10:55 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 11:43 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > mrv8k has commands that get called before and after the scan has been
> > done to save and restore hardware state.  Add optional callbacks to
> > mac80211 to enable low-level drivers to know when the stack is about to
> > start scanning, and when it's done.
> 
> I'm not entirely against this, but does it mean the driver will not work
> with the userspace MLME that does scanning itself in userspace too?

Probably not?  Both TopDog (linville's marvell.git and your
marvell.tar.bz2) both do this.  It's too early to tell whether we can
get along without it since the driver isn't functional enough yet.

BTW, where'd you get marvell.tar.bz2 from?

Dan


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