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authorJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>2010-05-03 08:49:48 +0200
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2010-05-03 14:53:10 -0400
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mac80211: improve IBSS scanning
When IBSS is fixed to a frequency, it can still scan to try to find the right BSSID. This makes sense if the BSSID isn't also fixed, but it need not scan all channels -- just one is sufficient. Make it do that by moving the scan setup code to ieee80211_request_internal_scan() and include a channel variable setting. Note that this can be further improved to start the IBSS right away if both frequency and BSSID are fixed. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/scan.c')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/scan.c28
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/scan.c b/net/mac80211/scan.c
index a9d4058..4146512 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/scan.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/scan.c
@@ -728,10 +728,12 @@ int ieee80211_request_scan(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
}
int ieee80211_request_internal_scan(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
- const u8 *ssid, u8 ssid_len)
+ const u8 *ssid, u8 ssid_len,
+ struct ieee80211_channel *chan)
{
struct ieee80211_local *local = sdata->local;
int ret = -EBUSY;
+ enum nl80211_band band;
mutex_lock(&local->scan_mtx);
@@ -739,6 +741,30 @@ int ieee80211_request_internal_scan(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
if (local->scan_req)
goto unlock;
+ /* fill internal scan request */
+ if (!chan) {
+ int i, nchan = 0;
+
+ for (band = 0; band < IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS; band++) {
+ if (!local->hw.wiphy->bands[band])
+ continue;
+ for (i = 0;
+ i < local->hw.wiphy->bands[band]->n_channels;
+ i++) {
+ local->int_scan_req->channels[nchan] =
+ &local->hw.wiphy->bands[band]->channels[i];
+ nchan++;
+ }
+ }
+
+ local->int_scan_req->n_channels = nchan;
+ } else {
+ local->int_scan_req->channels[0] = chan;
+ local->int_scan_req->n_channels = 1;
+ }
+
+ local->int_scan_req->ssids = &local->scan_ssid;
+ local->int_scan_req->n_ssids = 1;
memcpy(local->int_scan_req->ssids[0].ssid, ssid, IEEE80211_MAX_SSID_LEN);
local->int_scan_req->ssids[0].ssid_len = ssid_len;