On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 05:09:35PM +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. Can you elaborate more about this? > 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. > > Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@xxxxxx> > --- > include/linux/nl80211.h | 25 +++++ > include/net/cfg80211.h | 57 +++++++++++ > net/wireless/core.c | 12 ++- > net/wireless/core.h | 7 ++ > net/wireless/nl80211.c | 250 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > net/wireless/nl80211.h | 4 + > net/wireless/scan.c | 70 +++++++++++++ > 7 files changed, 424 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) And explain, why all of this is needed, instead of modify existing scan code and reuse existing infrastructure. This sched_scan does not seems to be something different than normal hardware scan we have already, or I'm wrong. Thanks Stanislaw -- 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
