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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: report operating frequency rather than current

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On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 20:49 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 14:32 -0400, Richard Farina wrote:
> 
> > To be honest, I would be perfectly happy with this patch if something 
> > like a scanning "flag" were to be show in the output if that is what is 
> > happening.  I don't so much need to see the current channel (when in sta 
> > mode at least) as I need to know that the card is scanning if it is not 
> > currently on the channel the AP is on.  I'd be very happy to simply see 
> > it say "scanning" next to the channel or some such when this occurs.
> 
> Except that's totally not possible with wext.

Also, again, it is impossible in practise to do that for all cards since
fullmac cards might be bg scanning without telling the host.

johannes

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