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nl80211: report age of scan results
authorHolger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>
Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:21:01 +0000 (12:21 +0200)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Wed, 7 Oct 2009 20:39:42 +0000 (16:39 -0400)
commit7c89606e24cdabaceb8ca9b3c7ab866c6bcc9e38
treeb2f76700d27154479e5ee72211d1ab6a6275d00btree | snapshot (tar.gz zip)
parent7976b4263cb05dc638297d35f2a42375090ebaffcommit | diff
nl80211: report age of scan results

Linux keeps scan results up to 15 seconds. This can be a problem for fast
moving clients: they get back stale data. But if the kernel reports the age
of the BSS items, then user-space can simply weed out old entries by itself.

Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
include/linux/nl80211.h diff | blob | blame | history
net/wireless/nl80211.c diff | blob | blame | history