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Re: [PATCH 3/3] cfg80211/nl80211: add interval attribute for scheduled scans

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On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 07:50 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> On 05/05/2011 07:51 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 07:43 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> >> On 05/05/2011 06:00 AM, Luciano Coelho wrote:
> >>> Introduce NL80211_ATTR_SCHED_SCAN_INTERVAL as a required attribute for
> >>> NL80211_CMD_START_SCHED_SCAN.  This value informs the driver at which
> >>> intervals the scheduled scan cycles should be executed.
> >>
> >> Please default to something useful instead of requiring
> >> this so that things are backwards compatible.
> >
> > Backward compatible to what?
> 
> To anything sending older style netlink messages?

But this is a new feature, and a new command, so I don't quite
understand why an application would think it can send it without the
interval?

johannes

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