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Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] mac80211: invoke sw_scan if hw_scan returns EPERM

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On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 12:54 PM Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Huh, why did you send this like 10 times? Also, HTML is dropped by the
> list ...
>
Hi Johannes,
There was an issue with our mailing server and we received Mail
Delivery Failure notification.
Hence, we tried multiple times by doing the changes.
Apologies for the inconvenience.
> > > I'm not convinced - why would you set that? It seems to me that drivers
> > > might, for example, still do one band in hardware and the other in
> > > software, or something like that? You might also run into the WARN_ON
> > > here?
> >
> > If we don't set this bit, observed "scan aborted" when "iw dev wlan0
> > scan" command
> > is given in redpine dual band modules(Didn't see any issue with single
> > band module).
> > sh# iw dev wlan0 scan
> > scan aborted!
>
> What happened underneath here? I'm having a hard time understanding -
> perhaps you can at least capture some mac80211 event tracing for this?
> perhaps with function graph tracing too, so we see where exactly the
> abort happens.
>
> Unless you already know why this happens, and that's why you set the
> cancel bit?
Sure Johannes. I will provide event trace or function graph details
for this and send you
the updatd patch. Is that fine?.
>
> So I think the clearer thing to do would be to have a separate bit for
> this and check it in the right place.
>
> johannes

Thanks
Siva Rebbagondla



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