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From: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
To: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: wpa_supplicant and driver reload
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 18:30:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140114163027.GA23034@w1.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52D55C5C.8010402@broadcom.com>

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 04:48:44PM +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 12/15/2013 10:15 AM, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> Found the problem in the way brcmfmac does cleanup upon unload. With
> that fixed I notice some other behaviour. After 3 driver reloads (within
> 1 minute) wpa_supplicant requests a scheduled scan. I fixed that by
> resetting wpa_s->normal_scans to zero upon entering
> WPA_INTERFACE_DISABLED state.

Patch welcome..

> The only thing left is that after each
> reload the delay before requesting a scan increases with 1 second. This
> is caused by the fact that in wpa_supplicant_driver_init() the delay is
> determined by a static counter that increments upon each call (if there
> are enabled networks). I think this is mainly intended for wpa_s startup
> so scans for each interface are not colliding. Not sure what the best
> way is to solve that.

Finishing this stalled discussion:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/245486/

And yes, this was added very much for the case of initial start only, so
doing a clean change to limit it for that case should be fine.

-- 
Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA

      reply	other threads:[~2014-01-14 16:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-11  9:02 wpa_supplicant and driver reload Arend van Spriel
2013-12-15  5:46 ` Jouni Malinen
2013-12-15  9:15   ` Arend van Spriel
2014-01-14 15:48     ` Arend van Spriel
2014-01-14 16:30       ` Jouni Malinen [this message]

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