Re: RFC: mac80211/ath9k: allow scanning single channel if other VIF is associated.

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

On 09/15/2010 08:37 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 08:32 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
>
>>>> Right, but as soon as one finished, the next would start, and at least in .31,
>>>> that caused the first to un-associate, giving never-ending loop of interfaces
>>>> scanning and trying to associate.
>>>
>>> There should be a grace period maybe?
>>
>> I don't think that really fixes anything, except make the race between
>> full scan and attempting for the first interface to associate harder to
>> hit (and that is only useful if the scan-one logic is enabled anyway).
>
> I think you just need to update ... newer kernels shouldn't be allowing
> a scan while trying to associate, I think.

Grab top-of-tree wireless-testing and apply my rxfilt patch to ath9k, and you can create two VIFS
and attempt to run wpa_supplicant against them (I use one supplicant per
interface.)

Unless it was fixed last night, I doubt you will have any luck.

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
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