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Re: [PATCH v3] rtw88: 8822c: add ieee80211_ops::hw_scan

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Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Po-Hao Huang <phhuang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Declare this function allows us to use customized scanning policy.
> By doing so we can be more time efficient on each scan. In order to
> make existing coex mechanism work as usual, firmware notifies driver
> on each channel switch event, then decide antenna ownership based on
> the current channel/band. Do note that this new mechanism affects
> throughput more than the sw_scan we used to have, but the overall
> average throughput is not affected since each scan take less time.
> Since the firmware size is limited, we only support probe requests
> with custom IEs length under 128 bytes for now, if any user space
> tools requires more than that, we'll introduce related changes
> afterwards. For backward compatibility, we fallback to sw_scan when
> using older firmware that does not support this feature.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Po-Hao Huang <phhuang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

10d162b2ed39 rtw88: 8822c: add ieee80211_ops::hw_scan

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/20211221085010.39421-1-pkshih@xxxxxxxxxxx/

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