On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 10:06 -0800, Ben Greear wrote: > > This doesn't seem to make much sense either -- even if we do a scan over > > multiple channels we should be able to optimise the part on the current > > channel (maybe put it at the beginning or end too). > > Maybe..but user-space can specify the channels it wants to scan, > and I assume that means what order to scan them in. I have no > idea if changing that order would confuse some application. No, it can't actually determine the order -- we sort them in cfg80211 anyway to de-duplicate them. > It seems to me that it would take quite a bit of re-work of the > mac80211 scanning logic to deal with scanning on the current > channel w/out affecting other tx/rx packets (as my patch attempts > to do), without setting some explicit flag before you enter > the scan state machine. Yeah, so maybe it needs some re-work, but I think what you're doing is a pretty strange hack. 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
