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Re: [RFC 06/15] mac80211: add support for HW periodic scan

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On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 16:33 +0100, ext Gery Kahn wrote:
> On 11/05/2010 09:55 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 21:59:37 +0200, Luciano Coelho
> > <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> >> I think the idea of using background is good.  Something like bg_scan or
> >> something.  The original idea was to call it background scan, but since
> >> wl1271 doesn't support this while connected, I thought calling it
> >> periodic scan would be slightly clearer about that.  Background scan
> >> sounds like you do it while connected (to me at least).
> >
> > Come to think of it though, we also call what we do when connected
> > and trigger a scan manually a "background scan", so that's probably
> > not a good name here.
> >
> > Not sure ... don't really have a good idea right now.

> It may be sched_scan

Hmmm... Scheduled scan is a good idea.  And sched_scan is a clear and
short abbreviation.  What do you think, Johannes?

-- 
Cheers,
Luca.

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