On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Jouni Malinen <j@xxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 01:44:15PM +0200, Tomas Winkler wrote: > >> Just a thought If user space will be able to merge 2 scan results we >> can then split then in 2 separate reports.... > > Theoretically speaking, yes, WEXT could be extended to do this with some > kind of scan parameter that indicates which 64 kB block is requested. > However, I would not suggest going there and I would probably object to > a patch that tries to do this either in the kernel or in wpa_supplicant > for that matter. I thin it can be done w/o extension of wext, j ust the eviction of old scan results is done in user space.IRCC the time stamp of beacon/probe is part of each entry. And user space state machine should be able to react on nl[SIOCGIWSCAN] w/o issuing ioctl[SIOCSIWSCAN]: > If you really end up hitting a case that does not work reasonably well > with 64 kB fix in user space, I would suggest looking into the > cfg80211/nl80211 scan stuff. The only additional thing it needs in such > an environment is to get better optimized data structure (for which, > there is already a proposed implementation, too). Guess we need to proceed with cfg anyway Tomas > -- > Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA > -- 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
