Hi John, On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 11:07 -0700, John W. Linville wrote: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 04:00:02PM -0700, Reinette Chatre wrote: > > From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > Some firmware versions don't behave properly when > > passive scanning is requested on radar channels > > without enabling active scanning on receiving a > > good frame. Work around that issue by asking the > > firmware to only enable the active scanning after > > receiving a huge number of good frames, a number > > that can never be reached during our dwell time. > > > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx> > > What is the consequence of this bug? It is very late in the 2.6.34 > cycle and it isn't obvious to me that this is something that has to > be fixed in this cycle. I see the comment about "sysassert", but I > don't know if that leads to something inconvenient (like restarting > the firmware) or something much worse? Unfortunately a sysassert does lead to firmware restart. Reinette -- 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
