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Re: [PATCH 1/6] mac80211: perform scan cancel in hw reset work

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On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 14:05 +0200, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
>> Move ieee80211_scan_cancel() and all other related code to
>> ieee80211_restart_work() as ieee80211_restart_hw() is intended to be
>> callable from any context.
>>
>> Fix a bug that RTNL lock is not taken during ieee80211_cancel_scan().
>>
>> Take local->mtx before WARN(test_bit(SCAN_HW_SCANNING, &local->scanning)
>> to prevent the race condition with __ieee80211_start_scan() described
>> here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=128516716810537&w=2
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This one's obvious -- the other ones I need a bit of time to review, and
> it's practically weekend here now. I'll try to get to it ASAP.

I'm going to suck this into linux-next-pending/ on compat-wireless for
today's release as it may fix a deadlock with carl9170.

  Luis
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