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Re: [PATCH] ath6kl: rework scheduled scan

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On 08/16/2012 02:51 AM, Thomas Pedersen wrote:
> This patch reflects changes in the firmware scheduled scan
> implementation to behave better in cases with multiple concurrent vifs.
> Major changes:
> 
> 	- scheduled scan filters and state are now programmed per-vif.
> 	- decouple scheduled scan from host sleep.
> 
> To maintain graceful failure with old firmwares, a new firmware
> capability bit is introduced: ATH6KL_FW_CAPABILITY_SCHED_SCAN_V2.
> ath6kl simply won't advertise scheduled scan to cfg80211 if the
> SCHED_SCAN_V2 is not supported.
> 
> Since firmwares from here on out won't support the previous implicit API
> for scheduled scan (set WoW filters and host sleep), bump the firmware
> API to protect old drivers.
> 
> Unfortunately, due to firmware RAM constraints ath6kl still cannot
> expect a scan complete event at the end of a scheduled scan results
> cycle, so the sched_scan_timer is retained.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <c_tpeder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, applied.

Kalle
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