Re: [PATCH] ipw2100: send WEXT scan events

Dan Williams <[email protected]> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:46:27 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general,gmane.linux.drivers.ipw2100.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 16:20 +0800, Zhu Yi wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 12:28 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > ipw2100 wasn't sending WEXT scan events at all on scan completion.
> > And
> > like ipw2200, the driver aggressively auto-scans, requiring
> > non-user-requested scan events to be batched together and sent at
> > specific intervals instead of many times per seconds.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
> 
> Sorry for the late response. Please see my comments below.
> 
> > +                       queue_delayed_work(priv->workqueue,
> > +                                       &priv->scan_event_later,
> > +                              round_jiffies(msecs_to_jiffies(4000)));
> 
> round_jiffies_relative instead?

Yeah, that patch hit after I posted mine.  Can fix up.

> > @@ -6118,6 +6153,8 @@ static struct net_device
> > *ipw2100_alloc_device(struct pci_dev *pci_dev,
> >         INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&priv->wx_event_work,
> > ipw2100_wx_event_work);
> >         INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&priv->hang_check, ipw2100_hang_check);
> >         INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&priv->rf_kill, ipw2100_rf_kill);
> > +       INIT_WORK(&priv->scan_event_now, ipw2100_scan_event_now);
> > +       INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&priv->scan_event_later,
> > ipw2100_scan_event_later);
> 
> Except the work vs. delayed_work, they are doing the same thing. So you
> can replace scan_event_now by scan_event_later with delay = 0.

Good catch, will post update.

Thanks!
Dan