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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Allow scan to be requested in AP mode

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On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 19:00 +0300, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 05:51:57PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 18:44 +0300, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> > > --- uml.orig/net/mac80211/cfg.c	2009-04-16 18:20:19.000000000 +0300
> > > +++ uml/net/mac80211/cfg.c	2009-04-16 18:33:44.000000000 +0300
> > > @@ -1167,7 +1167,8 @@ static int ieee80211_scan(struct wiphy *
> > >  
> > >  	if (sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION &&
> > >  	    sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC &&
> > > -	    sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT)
> > > +	    sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT &&
> > > +	    (sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_AP || sdata->u.ap.beacon))
> > >  		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> > 
> > Should this return a different error code for AP then? Maybe -EBUSY for
> > AP && beacon? Then again, EBUSY is already returned for "already
> > scanning". hmm.
> 
> I thought about that for a moment, but did not come up with a good error
> code.. ;-)  EBUSY is not a good option here since that could be used by
> applications to decide that they should try again (which would not help
> here at all). If someone has a better one in mind, I would have no
> problems changing this, but I don't see much problems with EOPNOTSUPP
> either.

Ok. Good enough for me :)

johannes

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