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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: stop scan before connection

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On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Emmanuel Grumbach
<emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: David Spinadel <david.spinadel@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Stop scan before authentication or association to make sure
> that nothing interferes with connection flow.
>
this makes sense

> Currently mac80211 defers RX auth and assoc packets (among other ones)
> until after the scan is complete, so auth during scan is likely to fail
> if scan took too much time.
>
but i don't think deferring the frame handling makes sense in case of
hw_scan (there was a similar case with BA request handling).
i should have such (one-liner) patch pending somewhere...

Eliad.
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