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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: cancel scan in ieee80211_restart_hw if software scan pending
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:29:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1283336978.4131.7.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1283282737-27749-1-git-send-email-linville@tuxdriver.com>

On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 15:25 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> This function exists to clean-up after a hardware error or something
> similar.  The restart is accomplished using the same infrastructure used
> to resume after a suspend.  The suspend path cancels running scans, so
> it seems appropriate to do that here as well for software-based scans.
> If a hardware-based scan is pending, issue a warning message since this
> indicates that the drivers has failed to clean-up after itself.

Makes sense.

I guess unrelated to this, I wonder if we should warn in the suspend
case as well, rather than doing it unconditionally. Hmm.

johannes



  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-01 10:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-30 19:14 [PATCH] mac80211: cancel scan in ieee80211_restart_hw John W. Linville
2010-08-30 19:17 ` Johannes Berg
2010-08-30 19:37   ` John W. Linville
2010-08-31  9:29     ` Johannes Berg
2010-08-31 19:25       ` [PATCH] mac80211: cancel scan in ieee80211_restart_hw if software scan pending John W. Linville
2010-09-01 10:29         ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2010-09-01 18:58           ` John W. Linville
2010-09-01 19:02             ` John W. Linville
2010-09-01 19:10             ` Johannes Berg
2010-09-01 20:17               ` John W. Linville
2010-09-02  8:29                 ` Johannes Berg
2010-09-01 20:17               ` [PATCH] mac80211: only cancel software-based scans on suspend John W. Linville

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