Re: [RFC] mac80211: fix scan state machine

[Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>]

On Wednesday 21 December 2011 08:21 PM, Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan wrote:
> From: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan<mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
>
> when we run high bandwidth UDP traffic and we trigger a scan, the scan
> state machine seems to be looping in SUSPEND->RESUME->DECISION->SUSPEND
> and SET_CHANNEL seems to be never called as 'tx_empty' is never true
> while running UDP traffic. fix this by settting SET_CHANNEL state when
> we get into RESUME state.

Hi johannes,

i am not completely familiar with the scan state machine. used some 
previous before some of your latest changes in scan state machine and
found this might help. please let me know if this does not helps 
something. thank you!

>
> Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan<mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
> ---
>   net/mac80211/scan.c |    2 +-
>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/mac80211/scan.c b/net/mac80211/scan.c
> index 2c5041c..2908e56 100644
> --- a/net/mac80211/scan.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/scan.c
> @@ -625,7 +625,7 @@ static void ieee80211_scan_state_resume(struct ieee80211_local *local,
>   	local->leave_oper_channel_time = jiffies;
>
>   	/* advance to the next channel to be scanned */
> -	local->next_scan_state = SCAN_DECISION;
> +	local->next_scan_state = SCAN_SET_CHANNEL;
>   }
>
>   void ieee80211_scan_work(struct work_struct *work)


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thanks,
shafi