On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 14:17 -0700, greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch aims to decrease channel switching when there is at least one
> interface associated. This should help multiple station interfaces co-exist
> on the same hardware, especially in WPA mode.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> v2 -> v3: Just check can_scan_one flag and if set and there is
> a vif associated, select the active channel as scan-channel and
> let core scanning logic function as designed.
>
> This gets much of the really ugly logic changes out of the
> scanning core, and any optimizations to this should help
> general purpose scanning on a single channel as well.
> --- a/include/linux/nl80211.h
> +++ b/include/linux/nl80211.h
> @@ -965,6 +965,8 @@ enum nl80211_attrs {
> NL80211_ATTR_CONTROL_PORT_ETHERTYPE,
> NL80211_ATTR_CONTROL_PORT_NO_ENCRYPT,
>
> + NL80211_ATTR_SCAN_ONE_IF_ASSOC,
> +
Still NACK, I don't see the need for new API for this odd case.
Please don't resubmit similar patches to this, I don't want to nack them
all the time.
johannes
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