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authorjohannes@sipsolutions.net <johannes@sipsolutions.net>2006-04-11 10:58:06 +0200
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2006-04-19 23:25:39 +0200
commitba2f8c18756b4a99c8cd3ab6526b2ed7a8f18ead (patch)
tree2ff973272099f0fed9214b9d47f968caee0015c1 /net/ieee80211/softmac
parent[PATCH] bcm43xx: set trans_start on TX to prevent bogus timeouts (diff)
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[PATCH] softmac: return -EAGAIN from getscan while scanning
Below patch was developed after discussion with Daniel Drake who mentioned to me that wireless tools expect an EAGAIN return from getscan so that they can wait for the scan to finish before printing out the results. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ieee80211/softmac')
-rw-r--r--net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c b/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c
index b559aa9b5507..00f0d4f71897 100644
--- a/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c
+++ b/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c
@@ -41,13 +41,23 @@ ieee80211softmac_wx_trigger_scan(struct net_device *net_dev,
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ieee80211softmac_wx_trigger_scan);
+/* if we're still scanning, return -EAGAIN so that userspace tools
+ * can get the complete scan results, otherwise return 0. */
int
ieee80211softmac_wx_get_scan_results(struct net_device *net_dev,
struct iw_request_info *info,
union iwreq_data *data,
char *extra)
{
+ unsigned long flags;
struct ieee80211softmac_device *sm = ieee80211_priv(net_dev);
+
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&sm->lock, flags);
+ if (sm->scanning) {
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sm->lock, flags);
+ return -EAGAIN;
+ }
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sm->lock, flags);
return ieee80211_wx_get_scan(sm->ieee, info, data, extra);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ieee80211softmac_wx_get_scan_results);