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Re: [PATCH] iwl4965: fix bogus hardware scan configuration caching

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On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 01:30 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> When iwl4965 is scanning, it needs to cache any configuration
> requests.
> This was implemented but the implementation is buggy: it uses only
> the *first* configuration rather than the *last* that is requested
> during scanning. This patch fixes that and also removes a bogus
> comment related to the issue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> This patch requires porting to iwl3965. For correctness, it
> needs to be applied to 2.6.24 although most likely nobody will
> ask to change channel twice during a single hardware scan. Duh!
> 
> Warning: patch is not even compile tested yet because I currently have
> a broken tree. I don't see why it shouldn't work though.

NACK. We have a better fix that doesn't require to alloc buffer at all
in our tree. Will post it here later.
http://intellinuxwireless.org/repos/?p=iwlwifi.git;a=commitdiff;h=5f967087629a19b0c166101ddd227dee8ab2ec39

Thanks,
-yi

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