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Re: [PATCH 1/3] cfg80211/nl80211: add support for scheduled scans

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On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 16:00 +0300, Luciano Coelho wrote:
> Implement new functionality for scheduled scan offload.  With this feature we
> can scan automatically at certain intervals.
> 
> The idea is that the hardware can perform scan automatically and filter on
> desired results without waking up the host unnecessarily.
> 
> Add NL80211_CMD_START_SCHED_SCAN and NL80211_CMD_STOP_SCHED_SCAN
> commands to the nl80211 interface.  When results are available they are
> reported by NL80211_CMD_SCHED_SCAN_RESULTS events.  The userspace is
> informed when the scheduled scan has stopped with a
> NL80211_CMD_SCHED_SCAN_STOPPED event, which can be triggered either by
> the driver or by a call to NL80211_CMD_STOP_SCHED_SCAN.

Didn't you initially want to differentiate between SCAN_SSIDS and
SSIDS_FILTER?

johannes

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