From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:44315 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752852AbZEES6D (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 May 2009 14:58:03 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: report operating frequency rather than current From: Johannes Berg To: Richard Farina Cc: Kalle Valo , "John W. Linville" , linux-wireless In-Reply-To: <1241549389.4969.0.camel@johannes.local> References: <1241452330.8683.49.camel@johannes.local> <49FF2AE5.6040104@gmail.com> <1241460130.8683.85.camel@johannes.local> <49FF2FE8.8010004@gmail.com> <20090504181357.GA19022@tuxdriver.com> <87eiv49k6o.fsf@litku.valot.fi> <4A008649.1000007@gmail.com> <1241549389.4969.0.camel@johannes.local> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-1qUfsAp18ynKA44ao28S" Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 20:57:29 +0200 Message-Id: <1241549849.4969.1.camel@johannes.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-1qUfsAp18ynKA44ao28S Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 20:49 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 14:32 -0400, Richard Farina wrote: >=20 > > To be honest, I would be perfectly happy with this patch if something=20 > > like a scanning "flag" were to be show in the output if that is what is= =20 > > happening. I don't so much need to see the current channel (when in st= a=20 > > mode at least) as I need to know that the card is scanning if it is not= =20 > > currently on the channel the AP is on. I'd be very happy to simply see= =20 > > it say "scanning" next to the channel or some such when this occurs. >=20 > Except that's totally not possible with wext. Also, again, it is impossible in practise to do that for all cards since fullmac cards might be bg scanning without telling the host. johannes --=-1qUfsAp18ynKA44ao28S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJKAIwXAAoJEKVg1VMiehFYXBEQAKds2EWPtvMEu7IXQEfPnKyL FmnsCTwzZbIWx67d0HMQ+vl+I69sL3aNEIbKJf5wDSI8IKN8Uv8Yow/0IIXUsDiP H0N10qXaCrmCkdQZiLUFMZlYMc0UDlIziQFquPVySwFQV9UmLOeUxoNEWZax0bLN KR6aBRPmfa1KCmHumDHTcrBKP+tZn1yqLBP4aiCpg48Um4vJynbYzn8N+Fg2AelQ 9ZzOeInmMkV9lo/1wFGRpIojWo5dqQP0OVDO8qRlWm6sLWSpb33a/1WLtHEJDM3c b3PuwINGmzIW1V4njG7gn/Gi/jjtrgzUbBlSasmLKLjyChYVFn4A+nDcxbA0x5m4 dazsLE2KhOaDxdjdFzu5ac2xdDYke0gjg32YaBcjy0QU//ep5a+OaE0Ei5kNdp15 8VuzrItdIBoUo8MnAPF7wF7SN8Xapsxd9e0z0EPTGKD3j+R3RKOXFPafUHv7ico3 MSQ8laO5r5GKTm0rp+X4gGdYUzbwqjgUBzr9i2QQ/Q2xi/+jTaQSVBsGtAWUiyVt YDGsF0Zv9QZl4jc+zgaBMGvkLXv9angxJDXECpWOv1diMq/u7DM21T6WoXjbv+Ik wtpPFFv6KxYszZQGaWc5/yKWmZ5wKg5urExJJ0Ptso1bNy3FbtaXvrGw3MiLQMXd QPNP+q+/vXq3t5YgtpHa =WCtr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-1qUfsAp18ynKA44ao28S--