On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 15:03 -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > > 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? Technically, yes, but there are some things it doesn't handle today, and there are some things in mac80211's scan implementation that unfortunately make our firmware somewhat unhappy. Also, when we have two virtual interfaces (for p2p) the firmware can get completely confused by a software scan, especially when we were operating as a p2p-GO. But isn't this the wrong way around -- shouldn't you be arguing why it should be kept and dig out bug reports about the HW scan implementation that weren't addressed? ;-) johannes -- 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
