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Re: [RFC] Implement basic background scanning

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Kalle Valo wrote:
> Helmut Schaa <hschaa@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
>>> This doesn't play well at all with hardware assisted scan as far as I
>>> can tell.
>>
>> Correct. The patch only adapts software scan code. The hardware
>> assisted scan is not touched at all but should also not be affected
>> in an odd way.
>
> I would guess that some firmwares support similar scanning in
> hardware. In the future we might add support for background scanning
> in hardware with a flag in hw_scan(), or something like that.

I don't want to see this implemented without taking into account hw scan
offload from the start.

johannes
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