Avery Pennarun <apenw...@gmail.com> writes:
> In the ath9k and several other drivers, commands like the following
> work while in AP mode:
>
> iw wlan0 scan -u ap-force passive
> and
> iw wlan0 offchannel 2452 100
>
> On ath10k (using a driver from v3.15-rc1 as of April 13th), these tell
> me the operation is not supported.
Yeah, mac80211 only supports this with sw_scan but ath10k uses hw_scan.
>From ieee80211_alloc_hw():
if (!ops->hw_scan)
wiphy->features |= NL80211_FEATURE_LOW_PRIORITY_SCAN |
NL80211_FEATURE_AP_SCAN;
> Are there any plans to implement this feature? It's important in
> order to implement automatic channel change in case of changes in the
> interference environment.
No plans at the moment. Does anyone know how much work would it be to
change mac80211 to support this with hw_scan?
--
Kalle Valo
_______________________________________________
ath10k mailing list
ath10k@lists.infradead.org
http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath10k
