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Re: [PATCH 5/5] mac80211: fix issuing idle calls when device open count is 0

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On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 12:49 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>
>> > In what situation? When you just suspend while things are up&running, or
>> > if you suspend with interfaces down?
>>
>> I believe Paul was suspending when the interface is up and running.
>
> Ok.
>
>> > It doesn't make sense anyway, so
>> > something's going on in the rest of the scan code -- we should be
>> > canceling scans properly when going down and when suspending, well
>> > before any of this becomes relevant.
>>
>> The issue might be we race to stop the device prior to canceling a
>> scan. Do you see that being possible?
>
> Not really, since we do scan_cancel() within suspend()... I guess I'd
> like to find out why that doesn't do what I think it does.

Well lets see, this is only reproducible with the new DBUS APIs, and
frankly I am not sure what these things do. Is it possible we have a
race between how it brings down an interface for suspend and canceling
a scan?

  Luis
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