Hardware offloaded scan - does wcn support it?
developer developer
dev at skyshaper.net
Thu May 16 12:13:53 EDT 2013
Hello
I was looking into the scan a bit today and I run into some confusion
which I hope we could maybe sort out.
the .hw_scan op is there to be able to pass a list of channels to scan
to the firmware and let the firmware do the heavy lifting while the
host relaxes. However, I am unsure if the wcn3660 supports this.
There is this packet:
https://github.com/KrasnikovEugene/wcn36xx/blob/master/hal.h#L4028
which contains the channel list, but I have not figured out how to utilize it.
Just sending this packet doesn't seem to scan anything as far as I can tell.
There also seems to be no way of settings active/passive scan per
channel in this packet.
Does anyone of you know if there is indeed support for hardware offloaded scan?
Unless there is a way to trigger the an offload I'm thinking about
hacking together support for the software scan implemented in mac80211
instead and hoping it'll work out ok.
Thoughts?
Cheers
--
Olof
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