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Re: [PATCH 04/13] iwlwifi: cancel scan when down the device

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On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 13:57 +0200, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> Always cancel scan when stooping device and scan is currently pending,
> we should newer have scan running after down device.
> 
> To assure we start scan cancel from restart work we have to schedule
> abort_scan to different workqueue than priv->workqueue.

Hmmm...

> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c
> @@ -2875,8 +2875,9 @@ static void __iwl_down(struct iwl_priv *priv)
>  
>  	IWL_DEBUG_INFO(priv, DRV_NAME " is going down\n");
>  
> -	if (!exit_pending)
> -		set_bit(STATUS_EXIT_PENDING, &priv->status);
> +	iwl_scan_cancel_timeout(priv, 200);

This introduces a locking issue, because iwl_scan_cancel_timeout() drops
the mutex. I suspect you fix that later though, but for example the
restart work uses the mutex to atomically track a few BT related
variables.

johannes

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