From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libertas: Remove carrier signaling from the scan code
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:25:25 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1262845525.3608.71.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1261964494.16627.92.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 17:41 -0800, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> > > There is no reason to signal a carrier off when doing a 802.11 scan.
> > >
> > > Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
> > > Cc: Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@gmail.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
> >
> > Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
>
> can we get this driver merged since no wireless driver should play with
> carrier on/off settings during scanning.
>
> I would actually go that far that we should fix it in 2.6.33 and also
> backport it to -stable.
Well likewise even if it *did* play with carrier, nothing should be
listening to the carrier signal for wifi devices anyway. So it
shouldn't really be a problem.
Dan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-07 6:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-18 10:36 [PATCH] libertas: Remove carrier signaling from the scan code Samuel Ortiz
2009-12-19 8:41 ` Dan Williams
2009-12-28 1:41 ` Marcel Holtmann
2010-01-07 6:25 ` Dan Williams [this message]
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