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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix PS vs. scan race

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On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:27:44PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 23:02 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > When somebody changes the PS parameters while scanning
> > is in progress, we enable PS -- during the scan. This
> > is clearly not desirable, and we can just abort enabling
> > PS when scanning since when the scan finishes it will
> > be taken care of.
> 
> John, did this fall through the cracks? I see you included a patch from
> today but not this :)

Looks like this one (on wireless-testing#master)?

commit da6cbb045d04706157d3117153b275ed9126bd1d
Author: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Wed Apr 22 23:02:51 2009 +0200

    mac80211: fix PS vs. scan race
    
    When somebody changes the PS parameters while scanning
    is in progress, we enable PS -- during the scan. This
    is clearly not desirable, and we can just abort enabling
    PS when scanning since when the scan finishes it will
    be taken care of.
    
    Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Reviewed-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@xxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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