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Re: [PATCH 01/10] rsi: add support for hardware scan offload

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Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, 2018-03-23 at 20:20 +0530, Amitkumar Karwar wrote:
>
>> > But maybe that's not really true at all? At least in one case it seems
>> > you just kick off something called "bgscan".
>> 
>> Yes. We have different scan implementations for device is connected
>> and non-connected cases. In connected case, firmware will take care of
>> timings when driver configures bgscan parameters due to power save and
>> coex restrictions. In non-connected state, driver is taking care of
>> it.
>> I found hardware scan in mac80211 more suitable for our device.
>
> Yeah it's a bit odd though that you're still implementing software scan
> :-)
>
> Perhaps we could make a special return code from the hwscan callback
> that would tell mac80211 to fall back to software scanning, so you'd
> only implement the connected case, and leave the rest up to mac80211?

Hehe, this is exactly what I proposed during my review :)

-- 
Kalle Valo



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