From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f50.google.com ([74.125.82.50]:38593 "EHLO mail-wm0-f50.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1032897AbbKEGlF convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Nov 2015 01:41:05 -0500 Received: by wmeg8 with SMTP id g8so4400815wme.1 for ; Wed, 04 Nov 2015 22:41:03 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <563A9B8C.3060503@candelatech.com> References: <563A9B8C.3060503@candelatech.com> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 07:41:03 +0100 Message-ID: (sfid-20151105_080710_589478_5E61DC5E) Subject: Re: Configurable scan dwell time? From: Michal Kazior To: Ben Greear Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 5 November 2015 at 00:58, Ben Greear wrote: > It looks to me like the channel dwell time when scanning (SW scanning, > mac80211) > is fixed at 1/9 of a second. I'd like to make this configurable...is that > something > that might be welcome upstream? > > My plan is to add to the netlink API around starting a scan and allow > user-space to > configure a dwell time in milliseconds. I've actually tried doing something like this some time ago: - http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/111255 - http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/111251 Michał