From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, softmac-dev@sipsolutions.net
Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] softmac: return -EAGAIN from getscan while scanning
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:34:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1144920890.4187.50.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1144919176.4187.44.camel@localhost>
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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.
johannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-13 9:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20060411085805.949313000@sipsolutions.net>
2006-04-13 0:42 ` [patch 4] softmac: fix event sending Johannes Berg
[not found] ` <20060411085841.252064000@sipsolutions.net>
2006-04-13 9:00 ` [patch 1/3] softmac: return -EAGAIN from getscan while scanning Pete Zaitcev
2006-04-13 9:06 ` Johannes Berg
2006-04-13 9:34 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2006-04-13 12:14 ` Dan Williams
2006-04-13 16:13 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-04-15 19:24 ` Johannes Berg
2006-04-15 21:27 ` Dan Williams
2006-04-13 12:12 ` Dan Williams
2006-04-13 12:19 ` Johannes Berg
2006-04-13 16:00 ` Jouni Malinen
2006-04-13 22:28 ` Pete Zaitcev
2006-04-13 22:45 ` Jouni Malinen
2006-04-13 23:03 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-04-13 23:35 ` Pete Zaitcev
2006-04-13 22:21 ` Pete Zaitcev
2006-04-13 9:41 ` [patch 5] softmac: report when scanning has finished Johannes Berg
2006-04-13 12:15 ` Dan Williams
2006-04-13 23:58 [patch 1/3] softmac: return -EAGAIN from getscan while scanning Jean Tourrilhes
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2006-04-14 0:01 Jean Tourrilhes
2006-04-14 15:58 ` Herbert Xu
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