iwlwifi: skip mac80211 conf during a hardware scan and replay it afterwards

This patch skips mac80211 configuration setting during a hardware scan
and replays it afterwards for the iwlwifi drivers.

Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 24 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
index 40b69182e4dc..8d603257b926 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
@@ -6888,8 +6888,8 @@ static void iwl3945_bg_scan_completed(struct work_struct *work)
         if (test_bit(STATUS_EXIT_PENDING, &priv->status))
                 return;
 
-        if (priv->cache_conf)
-                iwl3945_mac_config(priv->hw, priv->cache_conf);
+        if (test_bit(STATUS_CONF_PENDING, &priv->status))
+                iwl3945_mac_config(priv->hw, ieee80211_get_hw_conf(priv->hw));
 
         ieee80211_scan_completed(priv->hw);
 
@@ -7033,27 +7033,12 @@ static int iwl3945_mac_config(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_conf *co
                 goto out;
         }
 
-        /* TODO: Figure out how to get ieee80211_local->sta_scanning w/ only
-         * what is exposed through include/ declarations */
         if (unlikely(!iwl3945_param_disable_hw_scan &&
                      test_bit(STATUS_SCANNING, &priv->status))) {
-
-                if (priv->cache_conf)
-                        IWL_DEBUG_MAC80211("leave - still scanning\n");
-                else {
-                        /* Cache the configuration now so that we can
-                         * replay it after the hardware scan is finished. */
-                        priv->cache_conf = kmalloc(sizeof(*conf), GFP_KERNEL);
-                        if (priv->cache_conf) {
-                                memcpy(priv->cache_conf, conf, sizeof(*conf));
-                                IWL_DEBUG_MAC80211("leave - scanning\n");
-                        } else {
-                                IWL_DEBUG_MAC80211("leave - no memory\n");
-                                ret = -ENOMEM;
-                        }
-                }
+                IWL_DEBUG_MAC80211("leave - scanning\n");
+                set_bit(STATUS_CONF_PENDING, &priv->status);
                 mutex_unlock(&priv->mutex);
-                return ret;
+                return 0;
         }
 
         spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->lock, flags);
@@ -7110,10 +7095,7 @@ static int iwl3945_mac_config(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_conf *co
         IWL_DEBUG_MAC80211("leave\n");
 
 out:
-        if (priv->cache_conf) {
-                kfree(priv->cache_conf);
-                priv->cache_conf = NULL;
-        }
+        clear_bit(STATUS_CONF_PENDING, &priv->status);
         mutex_unlock(&priv->mutex);
         return ret;
 }