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Re: [PATCH v2] wireless: Support can-scan-one logic.

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On 06/02/2011 12:12 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Ben Greear<greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
On 05/18/2011 04:02 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:

On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 15:51 -0700, greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

From: Ben Greear<greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Enable this by passing a -1 for a scan frequency.

I still don't think we should do that, especially not with -1. That's
totally non-netlink like inband signalling. I'll also reply to your
other mail though since I don't think it makes sense to have this sort
of convenience function in the kernel.

It's virtually impossible (as far as I can tell) to carry an
out-of-tree netlink patch that uses a new netlink message
and still keep things backwards-compat when someone adds a
new message to the upstream kernel.  So, the -1 hack works
well for me.

If it were to go into the kernel proper, then we could
add a proper flag to the netlink API and start using
that.

If you just don't like the feature, thats OK...it is a pretty
specialized feature, and easy enough to carry in my own tree.

Since this shit was merged can you add a respective documentation
extension for the command for nl80211.h?

You un-merged it almost immediately, as far as I can tell.

What tree is it merged in?

Thanks,
Ben


   Luis


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