Firmware support for background scanning

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Mon Jul 13 13:39:37 EDT 2009


On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 17:19 +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> Before taking the suck it and see approach I was wondering
> if anyone knows if the background scanning facilities
> mentioned in the 5.1 firmware specification are implemented
> in the current 8686 sdio firmware?

I'd expect them to be implemented in the v8 and later firmware that the
sd8686 uses, but I haven't actually tried to use the background scan
functionality.  It wouldn't be to hard to write in some testing support
just to see if it was functional.

Dan

> I don't think the driver currently has support for this option.
> 
> My intention is to use this functionality if present to
> allow a card to notify userspace of when a network comes
> into range (the card itself is moving fairly quickly).
> 
> This corresponds to the option described in the firmware
> as 'Not connected and Deep sleep'.
> 
> If the firmware does support it has anyone any experience
> of utilizing it?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> ---
> Jonathan Cameron
> 
> 
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