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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: cancel scan in ieee80211_restart_hw if software scan pending

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On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 15:25 -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 for software-based scans.
> If a hardware-based scan is pending, issue a warning message since this
> indicates that the drivers has failed to clean-up after itself.

Makes sense.

I guess unrelated to this, I wonder if we should warn in the suspend
case as well, rather than doing it unconditionally. Hmm.

johannes


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