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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: cancel scan in ieee80211_restart_hw

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On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 09:17:59PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 15:14 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> > This function exists to clean-up after a hardware error or something
> > similar.  The restart is accomplished using the same infrastructure used
> > to resume after a suspend.  The suspend path cancels running scans, so
> > it seems appropriate to do that here as well.
> 
> > -	/* use this reason, __ieee80211_resume will unblock it */
> > +	ieee80211_scan_cancel(local);
> > +
> > +	/* use this reason, ieee80211_reconfig will unblock it */
> 
> Hmm, yes .. but how will this interact with hw scan?

You tell me -- I would think that calling ieee80211_restart_hw
would effectively abandon all hope of a hardware scan completing.
Should the caller call ieee80211_scan_completed(..., 1)?  Or should
we do that (or equivalent) here too?

John
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