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

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On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 02:58:57PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 12:29:38PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Maybe so, but I'm not sure what path we would hook for that.
> Doesn't wiphy_suspend run before the hardware bus suspend functions?
> How would the driver now in advance to cancel the hardware scan?

s/now/know/ -- English is hard...

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