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Re: [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: Allow scanning single channel if other VIF is associated.

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On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 06:50 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:

> At best, it would be a race for wpa_s to determine if any other interface
> on it's interface's hardware is associated, so I don't see a good way to
> do this in user-space.
> 
> When at least one is associated, I don't want the NIC to go offchannel at all,
> at least not for wpa_s scanning.  Anything else is going to interrupt other
> stations's traffic, and for no good reason that I can see, since the scanning
> interface must associate on the same channel as the rest of the stations
> anyway.
> 
> If you have any suggestions for how to accomplish this, please let me know..
> otherwise, I can just carry this patch in my tree.

You can run all networks in a single wpa_s instance, I believe, and then
it'd know about all this, right?

johannes

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