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Re: [PATCH v2] nl/cfg80211: advertise OBSS scan offload capability

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On Fri, 2012-11-09 at 17:51 -0800, Bing Zhao wrote:
> From: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> wpa_supplicant will do OBSS scan for drivers that implement
> auth/assoc API. Drivers that implement nl80211 connect API
> (rather than auth/assoc) may need wpa_supplicant to do this
> as well.
> 
> New flag is added to inform userspace that this driver will
> make use of wpa_supplicant's OBSS scan feature.

> + * @NL80211_FEATURE_OBSS_SCAN_OFFLOAD: The driver expects user space to
> + *	perform OBSS scan and generate 20/40 BSS coex reports. This flag is
> + *	interested in only in the case of a driver that has connect API.

Applied, but I changed a lot ;-)

Notably, I reworded the constant name to be
NL80211_FEATURE_NEED_OBSS_SCAN, since we typically use the term
"offload" to mean that the *device* does something, not to mean that
*userspace* does something.

johannes

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