Am Dienstag, 16. September 2008 11:10:10 schrieb Johannes Berg: > 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. Ok, would you accept a hardware flag that indicates if a card is able to do background scanning? And if the flag is not set we could just use a software background scan as fallback? Helmut -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
