Matthew Garrett wrote:
In order to scan, we need to have the radio on and we need to be able to send
and receive. What are you gonna turn off?
The obvious route would be to power the card down, but come back up
every two minutes to perform a scan, or if userspace explicitly requests
one. Would this cause problems in some cases?
I don't think it makes sense. For zd1211 the power consumption and heat
emission goes up considerably when the interface is brought up (radio
on, interrupts enabled, etc), and this is also a relatively long
operation in terms of duration needed to bring the interface up and
down. A scanning operation requires radio on, interrupts enabled, lots
of register reading, RF calibration, RX/TX ringbuffers allocation, etc.
I don't think that supporting scanning when the interface is supposed to
be disabled is sensible. If you want to scan, you are simply sending and
receiving frames, it's no different from having the interface up and
sending/receiving data frames.
There are additional implementation problems: scanning requires 2
different ioctl calls: siwscan, then several giwscan. If you want the
driver to effectively temporarily bring the interface up when userspace
requests a scan but the interface was down, then how does the driver
know when to bring it down again?
Daniel
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