Siva Rebbagondla <[email protected]> writes: > From: Prameela Rani Garnepudi <[email protected]> > > With the current approach of scanning, roaming delays are observed. > Firmware has support for back ground scanning. To get this advantage, > mac80211 hardware scan is implemented, which decides type of scan to > do based on connected state. > > When station is in not connected, driver returns with special value 1 > to trigger software scan in mac80211. In case of connected state, > background scan will be triggered. > > Signed-off-by: Prameela Rani Garnepudi <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Siva Rebbagondla <[email protected]> > --- > changes in v4: renamed return value in hw_scan from "-EPERM" -> "1" [Jberg] > changes in v3: replaced rsi_prepare_probe_request() with > ieee80211_probereq_get() [Kvalo] > changes in v2: none
This depends on: e9da68ddea60 mac80211: allow hardware scan to fall back to software But that's in w-d-next now so this is safe to be apply. -- Kalle Valo
