mac80211: clarify scan request

When a scan is requested for non-STA interfaces, we simply fire
off a scan, but for STA interfaces we shouldn't because they
could be in the middle of an association. This clarifies the
corresponding code.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Johannes Berg 2008-09-08 17:47:23 +02:00 committed by John W. Linville
parent bacac545f1
commit 9116dd0112

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@ -674,23 +674,32 @@ int ieee80211_sta_start_scan(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *scan_sdata,
int ieee80211_sta_req_scan(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, u8 *ssid, size_t ssid_len)
{
struct ieee80211_if_sta *ifsta = &sdata->u.sta;
struct ieee80211_local *local = sdata->local;
struct ieee80211_if_sta *ifsta;
if (sdata->vif.type != IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_STA)
return ieee80211_sta_start_scan(sdata, ssid, ssid_len);
/*
* STA has a state machine that might need to defer scanning
* while it's trying to associate/authenticate, therefore we
* queue it up to the state machine in that case.
*/
if (local->sta_sw_scanning || local->sta_hw_scanning) {
if (local->scan_sdata == sdata)
return 0;
return -EBUSY;
}
ifsta = &sdata->u.sta;
ifsta->scan_ssid_len = ssid_len;
if (ssid_len)
memcpy(ifsta->scan_ssid, ssid, ssid_len);
set_bit(IEEE80211_STA_REQ_SCAN, &ifsta->request);
queue_work(local->hw.workqueue, &ifsta->work);
return 0;
}