Re: [PATCH wireless-next 3/4] wifi: brcmfmac: Improve the delay during scan

"Lin Ian (CSS ICW ENG WFS SW WFSW 1)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.brcm80211,org.kernel.vger.linux-wireless
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On 6/4/2025 5:54 PM, Arend van Spriel wrote:
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> On 6/4/2025 11:16 AM, Ian Lin wrote:
>> From: Kurt Lee <[email protected]>
>>
>> wpa_supplicant sends NL80211_CMD_GET_SURVEY command every time after
>> normal scan, which causes brcmfmac surveying each channel again.
>> Currently brcmfmac implments brcmf_cfg80211_dump_survey focusing on AP
>> mode, thus this change will return the request other than AP mode.
>
> I am not sure if the driver should make this kind of decision. If
> wpa_supplicant wants to invoke a survey after a scan than we should
> simply comply and give what wpa_supplicant what it requests for. If you
> want to avoid the survey make it a configuration option in
> wpa_supplicant.conf.
>
Got it, ya it's much reasonable to make decision in wpa_supplicant.
We'll check what to do next.
Please abandon the change for now, thank you.

> Regards,
> Arend
>
>> Signed-off-by: Kurt Lee <[email protected]>
>> Signed-off-by: Ian Lin <[email protected]>
>> ---
>>   drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c | 3 +++
>>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+
Regards,
Ian
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