From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Adham.Abozaeid@microchip.com, Ajay.Kathat@microchip.com,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kvalo@codeaurora.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
Ganesh.Krishna@microchip.com, Aditya.Shankar@microchip.com,
Venkateswara.Kaja@microchip.com, Claudiu.Beznea@microchip.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/19] wilc: add wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2018 09:55:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1539071724.3687.87.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5BBC2D46.1060903@microchip.com>
On Tue, 2018-10-09 at 04:23 +0000, Adham.Abozaeid@microchip.com wrote:
>
> > I don't know what you need the shadow stuff for, but you should remove
> > it anyway, and use the cfg80211 functionality instead. If not
> > sufficient, propose patches to improve it?
>
> The point behind using a shadow buffer was to keep the scan results
> consistent between consecutive scans, and smooth out the cases where
> an AP isn't found momentarily during scanning.
> In this implementation, APs found during scanning are added to the
> shadow list, and removed if not found again for a period of time.
>
> I'm not much in favour of this implementation neither since it
> complicates the driver's logic, but it was serving the purpose.
You really should remove it - cfg80211 *and* wpa_s already do this if
required.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-09 7:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-26 10:25 [RFC 00/19] wilc: added driver for wilc module Ajay Singh
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 01/19] wilc: add coreconfigurator.h Ajay Singh
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 02/19] wilc: add coreconfigurator.c Ajay Singh
2018-10-08 14:16 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-09 9:42 ` Ajay Singh
2018-10-09 10:05 ` Johannes Berg
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 03/19] wilc: add host_interface.h Ajay Singh
2018-10-08 14:20 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-09 10:34 ` Ajay Singh
2018-10-09 10:36 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-09 11:44 ` Ajay Singh
2018-10-09 11:46 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-09 12:18 ` Ajay Singh
2018-10-09 18:36 ` Adham.Abozaeid
2018-10-09 19:14 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-09 20:01 ` Adham.Abozaeid
2018-10-09 20:02 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-09 20:06 ` Adham.Abozaeid
2018-10-29 14:56 ` Kalle Valo
2018-10-30 3:20 ` Ajay.Kathat
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 04/19] wilc: add host_interface.c Ajay Singh
2018-10-08 14:31 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-10 20:06 ` Adham.Abozaeid
2018-10-11 7:01 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-12 22:08 ` Adham.Abozaeid
2018-10-18 8:23 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-18 18:30 ` Adham.Abozaeid
2018-10-19 7:02 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-19 20:53 ` Adham.Abozaeid
2018-10-29 20:10 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-29 21:32 ` Adham.Abozaeid
2018-10-29 21:33 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-11 6:57 ` Ajay Singh
2018-10-10 20:14 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-12 21:55 ` Adham.Abozaeid
2018-10-18 8:23 ` Johannes Berg
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 05/19] wilc: add wilc_wlan_if.h Ajay Singh
2018-10-08 14:33 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-11 6:59 ` Ajay Singh
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 06/19] wilc: add wilc_wlan_cfg.h Ajay Singh
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 07/19] wilc: add wilc_wlan_cfg.c Ajay Singh
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 08/19] wilc: add wilc_wlan.h Ajay Singh
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 09/19] wilc: add wilc_wlan.c Ajay Singh
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 10/19] wilc: add wilc_wfi_netdevice.h Ajay Singh
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 11/19] wilc: add wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.h Ajay Singh
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 12/19] wilc: add wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c Ajay Singh
2018-10-08 14:57 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-09 4:23 ` Adham.Abozaeid
2018-10-09 7:55 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2018-10-09 17:15 ` Adham.Abozaeid
2018-10-19 21:47 ` Adham.Abozaeid
2018-10-29 20:11 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-29 21:43 ` Adham.Abozaeid
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 13/19] wilc: add linux_wlan.c Ajay Singh
2018-10-08 14:41 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-11 7:00 ` Ajay Singh
2018-10-11 7:03 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-11 7:26 ` Ajay Singh
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 14/19] wilc: add linux_mon.c Ajay Singh
2018-10-08 14:44 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-11 7:12 ` Ajay Singh
2018-10-11 7:15 ` Johannes Berg
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 15/19] wilc: add wilc_spi.c Ajay Singh
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 16/19] wilc: add wilc_sdio.c Ajay Singh
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 17/19] wilc: updated DT device binding for wilc device Ajay Singh
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 18/19] wilc: add Makefile and Kconfig files for wilc compilation Ajay Singh
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 19/19] wilc: added wilc module compilation in wireless Makefile & Kconfig Ajay Singh
2018-10-06 12:45 ` [RFC 00/19] wilc: added driver for wilc module Kalle Valo
2018-10-08 5:17 ` Ajay Singh
2018-10-08 7:38 ` Kalle Valo
2018-10-08 18:34 ` Adham.Abozaeid
2018-11-15 14:11 ` Kalle Valo
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