On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 17:41 -0800, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi John, > > > > There is no reason to signal a carrier off when doing a 802.11 scan. > > > > > > Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Cc: Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@xxxxxxxxx> > > > Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> > > can we get this driver merged since no wireless driver should play with > carrier on/off settings during scanning. > > I would actually go that far that we should fix it in 2.6.33 and also > backport it to -stable. Well likewise even if it *did* play with carrier, nothing should be listening to the carrier signal for wifi devices anyway. So it shouldn't really be a problem. Dan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
