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Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] add Wide Band Scan support

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On Mon, 2019-11-04 at 17:39 +0530, Sathishkumar Muruganandam wrote:
> Wide Band Scan allows to perform off-channel scan on requested channel/
> frequency along with corresponding phy mode/bandwidth (40Mhz, 80Mhz).
> 
> Below are use cases of Wide Band Scan,
> 
> 1. In case of phy running both AP and monitor vifs, wide band scan on
>    a different channel along with phymode (40Mhz, 80Mhz) captures
>    those off-channel data frames to monitor vif.
> 
> 2. Doing wide band scan instead of normal 20Mhz scan before spectral
>    dump, allows to fetch FFT reports for the complete requested
>    bandwidth (40Mhz, 80Mhz).

Neither of these are scan use cases (at least not that are covered by
nl80211 scan APIs), so that doesn't make sense.

johannes




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