Subject: [PATCH V2] ath6kl: Enable force foreground scan in connected state

This was disabled beacause there was a network stall
issue when scan is issued. This issue does not happen
with the new firmware (3.1.1.609), enable it back.

Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <[email protected]>
---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/cfg80211.c | 6 +++++-
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

V2 -- Add version of the firmware which has the fix in commit log

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/cfg80211.c
index 8d9fbd4..c50697d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/cfg80211.c
@@ -639,6 +639,7 @@ static int ath6kl_cfg80211_scan(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *ndev,
s8 n_channels = 0;
u16 *channels = NULL;
int ret = 0;
+ u32 force_fg_scan = 0;

if (!ath6kl_cfg80211_ready(ar))
return -EIO;
@@ -700,7 +701,10 @@ static int ath6kl_cfg80211_scan(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *ndev,
channels[i] = request->channels[i]->center_freq;
}

- ret = ath6kl_wmi_startscan_cmd(ar->wmi, WMI_LONG_SCAN, 0,
+ if (test_bit(CONNECTED, &ar->flag))
+ force_fg_scan = 1;
+
+ ret = ath6kl_wmi_startscan_cmd(ar->wmi, WMI_LONG_SCAN, force_fg_scan,
false, 0, 0, n_channels, channels);
if (ret)
ath6kl_err("wmi_startscan_cmd failed\n");
--
1.7.0.4



2011-10-03 10:35:25

by Kalle Valo

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Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] ath6kl: Enable force foreground scan in connected state

On 10/01/2011 01:42 PM, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote:
> This was disabled beacause there was a network stall
> issue when scan is issued. This issue does not happen
> with the new firmware (3.1.1.609), enable it back.

Thanks, applied.

Kalle