Re: [PATCH] RFC: Universal scan proposal

[Dmitry Shmidt <dimitrysh@google.com>]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 8:06 AM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
>
>> Supporting requests (or more precisely requests and results)
>> differentiated by user-space entity can be tricky. Right now we are
>> not checking current caller pid, right? Maybe it is also good idea -
>> or maybe we can just make result filtering per user-space caller?
>
> Could be done.
>
> You seem to be very worried about the partial results - I'm not too
> worried about that I guess, the connection manager itself will always
> be able to wait for the full scan to finish before making a decision,
> but it may not even want to (see the separate discussion on per-channel
> "done" notifications etc.)

Probably you are right.

> I'm much more worried about the "bucket reporting" since that doesn't
> fit into the current full BSS reporting model at all. What's your
> suggestion for this?
>
> johannes

We can either use alternative structure in kernel wireless stack,
or alternative structure in userspace (in wpa_supplicant), and we will
most likely need special command for this case at least to retrieve
results.