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Re: [RFC 1/3] mac80211: do not scan and monitor connection in parallel

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On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 01:52:58PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 13:02 +0100, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> > Before we send probes in connection monitoring we check if scan is not
> > pending. But we do that check without locking. Fix that and also do not
> > start scan if connection monitoring is in progress.
> 
> Wouldn't it be easier to just abort the check instead of deferring the
> scan?

It would be easier. However we already defer scan on
!list_empty(&local->work_list) case. Also random failures of
scan request can not be well seen from user-space perspective.

Stanislaw
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