Re: [PATCH] iwl3945: queue the right work if the scan needs to be aborted
From: Guy, Wey-Yi <hidden>
Date: 2010-09-27 20:12:45
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On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 09:22 -0700, Florian Mickler wrote:
iwl3945's scan_completed calls into the mac80211 stack which triggers a warn on if there is no scan outstanding. This can be avoided by not calling scan_completed but abort_scan in iwl3945_request_scan in the done: branch of the function which is used as an error out. The done: branch seems to be an error-out branch, as, for example, if iwl_is_ready(priv) returns false the done: branch is executed. NOTE: I'm not familiar with the driver at all. I just quickly scanned as a reaction to https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17722 the users of scan_completed in the iwl3945 driver and noted the odd discrepancy between the comment above this instance and the comment in mac80211 scan_completed function. Signed-off-by: Florian Mickler <redacted>
Acked-by: Wey-Yi Guy <redacted>
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go into wireless-2.6 and stable only, scan fix already in wireless-next-2.6 Thanks Wey
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-lib.c | 2 +- drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-lib.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-lib.c index 9dd9e64..8fd00a6 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-lib.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-lib.c@@ -1411,7 +1411,7 @@ void iwlagn_request_scan(struct iwl_priv *priv, struct ieee80211_vif *vif) clear_bit(STATUS_SCAN_HW, &priv->status); clear_bit(STATUS_SCANNING, &priv->status); /* inform mac80211 scan aborted */ - queue_work(priv->workqueue, &priv->scan_completed); + queue_work(priv->workqueue, &priv->abort_scan); } int iwlagn_manage_ibss_station(struct iwl_priv *priv,diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c index 59a308b..d31661c 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c@@ -3018,7 +3018,7 @@ void iwl3945_request_scan(struct iwl_priv *priv, struct ieee80211_vif *vif) clear_bit(STATUS_SCANNING, &priv->status); /* inform mac80211 scan aborted */ - queue_work(priv->workqueue, &priv->scan_completed); + queue_work(priv->workqueue, &priv->abort_scan); } static void iwl3945_bg_restart(struct work_struct *data)