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Re: [Ipw2100-devel] ipw2200: queue direct scans

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On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 13:49 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> When another scan is in progress, a direct scan gets dropped on the
> floor.  However, that direct scan is usually the scan that's really
> needed by userspace, and gets stomped on by all the broadcast scans
> the
> ipw2200 driver issues internally.  Make sure the direct scan happens
> eventually, and as a bonus ensure that the passive scan worker is
> cleaned up when appropriate.
> 
> The change of request_passive_scan form a struct work to struct
> delayed_work is only to make the set_wx_scan() code a bit simpler,
> it's
> still only used with a delay of 0 to match previous behavior.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx>

I agree with you the idea to split the current active request_scan into
active direct scan and active broadcast scan. But can you merge your
ipw_request_direct_scan_helper into ipw_request_scan_helper so that we
don't duplicate the code?

Thanks,
-yi

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