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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix oops in ieee80211_scan_state_set_channel()

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On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 20:15 +0200, Helmut Schaa wrote:

> > Lack of SCAN_DONE in mac80211_scan_state.  We exit scanning through the
> > "entry point".
> 
> I also thought of a separate state SCAN_DONE or something similar but
> dropped that idea as the only thing this state would have to do is the
> call to ieee80211_scan_completed. So, once the scan is finished we
> just stay in SCAN_DECISION as long as the scan state machine gets poked
> again by a start_scan call.

It's just an idea.  I only touched that code because it was failing for
me.

There is some duplication of information between local->scanning and
local->next_scan_state, but it's probably hard to avoid.

> > Use of "unsigned long" for bitwise fields, such as queue_stop_reasons
> > and scanning.  This reminds me of the good old days where long was
> > always 32 bit, but int wasn't.  I think "unsigned int" should be enough,
> > and you can annotate it with __bitwise to make sparse catch some
> > misuses.
> 
> No objections :)

Sorry, it turns out test_bit() wants unsigned long.  I don't quite like
what it does, but I'm not going to rewrite it.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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