Re: ipw2200: queue direct scans

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 09:50 +0800, Zhu Yi wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 13:49 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > When another scan is in progress, a direct scan gets dropped on the
> > floor.  However, that direct scan is usually the scan that's really
> > needed by userspace, and gets stomped on by all the broadcast scans
> > the
> > ipw2200 driver issues internally.  Make sure the direct scan happens
> > eventually, and as a bonus ensure that the passive scan worker is
> > cleaned up when appropriate.
> > 
> > The change of request_passive_scan form a struct work to struct
> > delayed_work is only to make the set_wx_scan() code a bit simpler,
> > it's
> > still only used with a delay of 0 to match previous behavior.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
> 
> I agree with you the idea to split the current active request_scan into
> active direct scan and active broadcast scan. But can you merge your
> ipw_request_direct_scan_helper into ipw_request_scan_helper so that we
> don't duplicate the code?

Sure, can give that a shot.

Dan



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