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On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 18:06 +0300, Luciano Coelho wrote:

> Usually the drivers stay for a certain period of time in each channel,
> and that normally doesn't change if you have active or passive scan.  So
> there will be no improvement in the overall scan speed.  Of course you
> could do some tweaks that might improve scanning performance in specific
> cases.

It's certainly different with mac80211:

#define IEEE80211_CHANNEL_TIME (HZ / 33)
#define IEEE80211_PASSIVE_CHANNEL_TIME (HZ / 8)

johannes

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