From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
To: johannes@sipsolutions.net
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com
Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] softmac: return -EAGAIN from getscan while scanning
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 02:00:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060413020010.2ab16d7b.zaitcev@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060411085841.252064000@sipsolutions.net>
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:58:06 +0200, johannes@sipsolutions.net wrote:
> Below patch was developed after discussion with Daniel Drake who
> mentioned to me that wireless tools expect an EAGAIN return from getscan
> so that they can wait for the scan to finish before printing out the
> results.
This sounds completely wrong. Do you guys remember the Subject: string
of this discussion by any chance?
It's very likely that tools do indeed loop when they see EAGAIN, but
this is a workaround, not the main mode of operation. It seems obvious
to me that the get method should wait until the scan results are
available. Perhaps the discussion had a specific scenario where
EAGAIN would make sense, but I cannot imagine what it might be.
-- Pete
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-13 9:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20060411085805.949313000@sipsolutions.net>
2006-04-13 0:42 ` [patch 4] softmac: fix event sending Johannes Berg
[not found] ` <20060411085841.252064000@sipsolutions.net>
2006-04-13 9:00 ` Pete Zaitcev [this message]
2006-04-13 9:06 ` [patch 1/3] softmac: return -EAGAIN from getscan while scanning Johannes Berg
2006-04-13 9:34 ` Johannes Berg
2006-04-13 12:14 ` Dan Williams
2006-04-13 16:13 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-04-15 19:24 ` Johannes Berg
2006-04-15 21:27 ` Dan Williams
2006-04-13 12:12 ` Dan Williams
2006-04-13 12:19 ` Johannes Berg
2006-04-13 16:00 ` Jouni Malinen
2006-04-13 22:28 ` Pete Zaitcev
2006-04-13 22:45 ` Jouni Malinen
2006-04-13 23:03 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-04-13 23:35 ` Pete Zaitcev
2006-04-13 22:21 ` Pete Zaitcev
2006-04-13 9:41 ` [patch 5] softmac: report when scanning has finished Johannes Berg
2006-04-13 12:15 ` Dan Williams
2006-04-13 23:58 [patch 1/3] softmac: return -EAGAIN from getscan while scanning Jean Tourrilhes
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-04-14 0:01 Jean Tourrilhes
2006-04-14 15:58 ` Herbert Xu
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