Re: [PATCH] iwl3945: queue the right work if the scan needs to be aborted

["Guy, Wey-Yi" <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>]

Hi Florian,

On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 09:22 -0700, Florian Mickler wrote:
> iwl3945's scan_completed calls into the mac80211 stack which triggers a
> warn on if there is no scan outstanding.
> 
> This can be avoided by not calling scan_completed but abort_scan in
> iwl3945_request_scan  in the done: branch of the function which is used
> as an error out.
> 
> The done: branch seems to be an error-out branch, as, for example, if
> iwl_is_ready(priv) returns false  the done: branch is executed.
> 
> NOTE:
> I'm not familiar with the driver at all.
> I just quickly scanned as a reaction to
> 
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17722
> 
> the users of scan_completed in the  iwl3945 driver and noted the odd
> discrepancy between the comment above this instance and the comment in
> mac80211 scan_completed function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-lib.c  |    2 +-
>  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c |    2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-lib.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-lib.c
> index 9dd9e64..8fd00a6 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-lib.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-lib.c
> @@ -1411,7 +1411,7 @@ void iwlagn_request_scan(struct iwl_priv *priv, struct ieee80211_vif *vif)
>  	clear_bit(STATUS_SCAN_HW, &priv->status);
>  	clear_bit(STATUS_SCANNING, &priv->status);
>  	/* inform mac80211 scan aborted */
> -	queue_work(priv->workqueue, &priv->scan_completed);
> +	queue_work(priv->workqueue, &priv->abort_scan);
>  }
>  
>  int iwlagn_manage_ibss_station(struct iwl_priv *priv,
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
> index 59a308b..d31661c 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
> @@ -3018,7 +3018,7 @@ void iwl3945_request_scan(struct iwl_priv *priv, struct ieee80211_vif *vif)
>  	clear_bit(STATUS_SCANNING, &priv->status);
>  
>  	/* inform mac80211 scan aborted */
> -	queue_work(priv->workqueue, &priv->scan_completed);
> +	queue_work(priv->workqueue, &priv->abort_scan);
>  }
>  
>  static void iwl3945_bg_restart(struct work_struct *data)

Thanks for sending the patch, the scan operation in iwlwifi just being
modified and the changes you have no longer apply.please check the
latest kernel.

Thanks
Wey