RE: [PATCH] mwifiex: advertise low priority scan feature
From: Amitkumar Karwar
Date: Mon Mar 21 2016 - 04:26:52 EST
> From: linux-wireless-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-wireless-
> owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wei-Ning Huang
> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 1:37 PM
> To: Linux Wireless
> Cc: LKML; Amitkumar Karwar; djkurtz@xxxxxxxxxxxx; Wei-Ning Huang;
> Nishant Sarmukadam; kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [PATCH] mwifiex: advertise low priority scan feature
>
> From: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Low priority scan handling code which delays or aborts scan operation
> based on Tx traffic is removed recently. The reason is firmware already
> takes care of it in our new feature scan channel gap. Hence we should
> advertise low priority scan support to cfg80211.
>
> This patch fixes a problem in which OBSS scan request from
> wpa_supplicant was being rejected by cfg80211.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wei-Ning Huang <wnhuang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c
> b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c
> index bb7235e..7dafc5b 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c
> @@ -4086,6 +4086,7 @@ int mwifiex_register_cfg80211(struct
> mwifiex_adapter *adapter)
>
> wiphy->features |= NL80211_FEATURE_HT_IBSS |
> NL80211_FEATURE_INACTIVITY_TIMER |
> + NL80211_FEATURE_LOW_PRIORITY_SCAN |
> NL80211_FEATURE_NEED_OBSS_SCAN;
>
> if (ISSUPP_TDLS_ENABLED(adapter->fw_cap_info))
Acked-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Regards,
Amitkumar