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

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On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 13:21 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 07:15 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Hm. Could we leave it out of mac80211 for now then until you know?

Fair enough.

> > BTW, where'd you get marvell.tar.bz2 from?
> 
> No idea, I don't remember, I could probably dig it up in my email but
> didn't find it quickly right now.

If it's not too much trouble, would be nice to know.

Thanks!
Dan

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