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Re: [PATCH 06/13] iwlcore: Fix scan problem, resource busy

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On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 05:12:00PM +0100, Helmut Schaa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Mittwoch, 18. März 2009 schrieb Reinette Chatre:
> > From: Mohamed Abbas <mohamed.abbas@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > when mac80211 issues scan request to lower driver, it always expect
> > a scan_complete notification from the driver, this driver make sure
> > we call scan_completed on all exit path in iwl_mac_hw_scan.
> 
> It should suffice to return an error in iwl_mac_hw_scan (as done without
> this patch). The problem was mac80211 not calling cfg80211 in case of a
> failure. [1] should fix that. Hence, this workaround in iwlwifi should
> not be needed.
> 
> Helmut
> 
> [1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.git;a=commit;h=a3fa954ddc4509721a691dd685c3d102cba0b58e

I think Helmut is right.  I'm dropping patch 6/13.

John
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