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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 08:17 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:

> > You can run all networks in a single wpa_s instance, I believe, and then
> > it'd know about all this, right?
> 
> But then, if you want to add an additional interface, you have to restart
> everything.

Well, you can add it dynamically over dbus or the unix socket control
interface.

> I was thinking that maybe I could keep the logic in wpa_s, but instead of
> all the special casing, just locate the current associated channel for the
> phy in question and populate the scan-req with that single channel.
> 
> Then, I think I wouldn't have to muck with much of the scan logic..just
> a bit of code on the entry point to select the proper channel.
> 
> Does that sound like a possible solution to you?

I don't care all that much, but I really don't like the in-kernel
workaround. For that, you'd have to iterate over "iw <wlanX> link" I
suppose.

johannes

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