Johannes, could you help to answer! On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 12:03 -0700, John W. Linville wrote: > On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 10:51:40AM -0700, Guy, Wey-Yi wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 10:36 -0700, John W. Linville wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 08:23:08AM -0700, Wey-Yi Guy wrote: > > > > Hardware scan is the prefer method for all iwlwifi devices; > > > > especially for dual-mode functions. Schedule to deprecate the > > > > software scan support in kernel 2.6.40 > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > Hmmm...perhaps you have more confidence in this than I do? > > > My experience suggests that hardware scanning has been the source of > > > a number of problems and having the option to turn it off has provided > > > a useful workaround for any number of users. > > > > > > Anyone else have heartburn over this one? > > > > > The current HW scan implementation was improve a lot and sw scan will > > cause problem, especially once we introduce P2P. > > What support issues are caused by supporting software scanning? > > Whatever issues are caused by scanning with P2P, doesn't mac80211 > have to handle them anyway? > > John -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
