On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 10:39:50AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > 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? ;-) Hmmm...not so sure about that. Alan Cox has been quoted as saying "a maintainer's job is to say no". I suppose we can argue about this again when you actually try to remove the option... John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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
