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From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	rossi.f@inwind.it
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: do not trigger beacon loss work if scanning
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:21:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43e72e890907231621l35bc0f82n79b91bd5bda25dcc@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1248389978.10342.1.camel@johannes.local>

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Johannes Berg<johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 00:58 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
>
>> > @@ -2187,7 +2187,7 @@ static void ieee80211_sta_bcn_mon_timer(unsigned long data)
>> >             (struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *) data;
>> >     struct ieee80211_local *local = sdata->local;
>> >
>> > -   if (local->quiescing)
>> > +   if (local->quiescing || local->sw_scanning || local->hw_scanning)
>>
>> I'd rather have  that check in ieee80211_mgd_probe_ap itself, so it's
>> much closer to the source of the problem.
>
> And, incidentally, not racy then.

And wouldn't it be even better to just disable the timers before
scanning and re-enabling after scanning?

  Luis

      reply	other threads:[~2009-07-23 23:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-23 22:49 [PATCH] mac80211: do not trigger beacon loss work if scanning Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-07-23 22:58 ` Johannes Berg
2009-07-23 22:59   ` Johannes Berg
2009-07-23 23:21     ` Luis R. Rodriguez [this message]

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