From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>,
Kiran Divekar <dkiran@marvell.com>,
Yogesh Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com>,
Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>,
Frank Huang <frankh@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.3] mwifiex: remove redundant scan operation
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:23:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120227182333.GC26664@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1330148136-28867-2-git-send-email-bzhao@marvell.com>
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 09:35:36PM -0800, Bing Zhao wrote:
> From: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
>
> It should have been removed by commit "mwifiex: use cfg80211 dynamic
> scan..." (7c6fa2a843..) after adding code to avoid an extra scan
> during association because scan entries are valid for 15 seconds in
> cfg80211 stack.
>
> Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
> Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c | 6 ------
> 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c
> index e4e6d7d..7b98ce0 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c
> @@ -924,12 +924,6 @@ mwifiex_cfg80211_assoc(struct mwifiex_private *priv, size_t ssid_len, u8 *ssid,
> }
> }
> done:
> - /* Do specific SSID scanning */
> - if (mwifiex_request_scan(priv, &req_ssid)) {
> - dev_err(priv->adapter->dev, "scan error\n");
> - return -EFAULT;
> - }
> -
> /*
> * Scan entries are valid for some time (15 sec). So we can save one
> * active scan time if we just try cfg80211_get_bss first. If it fails
It seems like this could wait to be fixed in 3.4?
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-27 23:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-25 5:35 [PATCH 3.3] mwifiex: reset encryption mode flag before association Bing Zhao
2012-02-25 5:35 ` [PATCH 3.3] mwifiex: remove redundant scan operation Bing Zhao
2012-02-27 18:23 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2012-02-27 23:47 ` Bing Zhao
2012-02-27 18:23 ` [PATCH 3.3] mwifiex: reset encryption mode flag before association John W. Linville
2012-02-27 23:44 ` Bing Zhao
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