On Thu, 2019-11-14 at 18:03 +0530, Sathishkumar Muruganandam wrote: > On 2019-11-14 12:08, Johannes Berg wrote: > > On Mon, 2019-11-11 at 13:27 +0530, Sathishkumar Muruganandam wrote: > > > > How is this related to scanning? It sounds to me like you're just > > > > (ab)using scan as a somewhat convenient "do some channel hopping" API > > > > ... > > > > > > > > > > Whether this can be used under "iw offchannel" with > > > NL80211_CMD_REMAIN_ON_CHANNEL? > > > > Are you asking if I would accept wide > > channel extensions to R-O-C? > > Yes, adding bandwidth config to existing command. > > Something like this, > > iw offchannel <freq> [HT40+|HT40-|80MHz] <duration> > > > Still I guess I'd like to see an actual reason for it. > > Wide band scan is actually moving to a off-channel for a > specified duration to capture 40, 80Mhz data frames. > > So, I hope offchannel would accommodate this extension. That certainly makes more sense to me than scan, but it'd *still* be good to come up with use cases for supporting it and have that in the commit details. johannes
