Return-path: Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.154]:53026 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752496AbZCSQMP convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:12:15 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e12so72826fga.17 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:12:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Helmut Schaa To: Reinette Chatre Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/13] iwlcore: Fix scan problem, resource busy Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:12:00 +0100 Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Mohamed Abbas References: <1237351913-19202-1-git-send-email-reinette.chatre@intel.com> <1237351913-19202-6-git-send-email-reinette.chatre@intel.com> <1237351913-19202-7-git-send-email-reinette.chatre@intel.com> In-Reply-To: <1237351913-19202-7-git-send-email-reinette.chatre@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Message-Id: <200903191712.01325.helmut.schaa@gmail.com> (sfid-20090319_171219_801232_78F018CA) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, Am Mittwoch, 18. M=E4rz 2009 schrieb Reinette Chatre: > From: Mohamed Abbas >=20 > when mac80211 issues scan request to lower driver, it always expect > a scan_complete notification from the driver, this driver make sure > we call scan_completed on all exit path in iwl_mac_hw_scan. It should suffice to return an error in iwl_mac_hw_scan (as done withou= t this patch). The problem was mac80211 not calling cfg80211 in case of a failure. [1] should fix that. Hence, this workaround in iwlwifi should not be needed. Helmut [1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=3Dlinux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testi= ng.git;a=3Dcommit;h=3Da3fa954ddc4509721a691dd685c3d102cba0b58e -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireles= s" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html