On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 11:03 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Johannes Berg >> <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 05:18 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: >> >> This is totally incomplete: >> >> >> >> cfg80211 needs to >> >> * actually hash on the BSSID instead of putting things into a list >> >> * provide BSS list functions so mac80211 need not keep track >> >> * allow a "private" area in each scan result with hw-provided size >> >> * handle mesh properly >> >> * provide a way for the hw to limit the number of SSIDs in a scan > >> Don't understand this requirement? > > Limiting the number of SSIDs? Well I don't want to have userspace > request an active scan for like 100 SSIDs, which currently _is_ possible > (mac80211 will reject anything but 1 right now though). Hence, I want to > have a "max probes" or something like that in the wiphy structure that > we can use (a) tell userspace how many we support and (b) limit the > number appropriately. > >> * provide a way to limit the number of channels in a scan (for >> faster roaming candidate search) > > Hey, unfair! ;) I did leave a lot of TODOs but this wasn't one of them. > You can provide a channel list and it'll scan only those (except hw scan > right now but that'll be fixed once we pass the scan request struct > through) Agree, this would be the correct approach. Tomas -- 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
