On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 11:34 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 11:06 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > > > It's very likely that tools do indeed loop when they see EAGAIN, but > > > this is a workaround, not the main mode of operation. It seems obvious > > > to me that the get method should wait until the scan results are > > > available. Perhaps the discussion had a specific scenario where > > > EAGAIN would make sense, but I cannot imagine what it might be. > > > > Right, they do loop, but they don't have a method to indicate > > completion. Thus we'd have to actually wait for the completion in the > > kernel. Jean, what is the intended use here? > > Hah, never mind, I guess we're just supposed to send SIOCGIWSCAN. Will > send a patch in a minute.
No, you should be doing both really. If you don't do EAGAIN, then tools like iwlist and other simple ones that don't want to spend 100 lines of code in netlink message processing just to receive the wireless event won't work very well. Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
