Re: [PATCH] mwifiex: advertise low priority scan feature

From: Wei-Ning Huang
Date: Mon Mar 21 2016 - 04:10:04 EST


Tested-by: Wei-Ning Huang <wnhuang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Wei-Ning Huang <wnhuang@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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))
> --
> 2.8.0.rc3.226.g39d4020
>



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