On Tue, 2018-10-09 at 04:23 +0000, Adham.Abozaeid@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > I don't know what you need the shadow stuff for, but you should remove > > it anyway, and use the cfg80211 functionality instead. If not > > sufficient, propose patches to improve it? > > The point behind using a shadow buffer was to keep the scan results > consistent between consecutive scans, and smooth out the cases where > an AP isn't found momentarily during scanning. > In this implementation, APs found during scanning are added to the > shadow list, and removed if not found again for a period of time. > > I'm not much in favour of this implementation neither since it > complicates the driver's logic, but it was serving the purpose. You really should remove it - cfg80211 *and* wpa_s already do this if required. johannes
