cfg80211: issue netlink notification when scan starts

To ease multiple apps working together smoothly,
send a notification when a scan is started.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/wireless/scan.c b/net/wireless/scan.c
index f8e71b300001..261a06386822 100644
--- a/net/wireless/scan.c
+++ b/net/wireless/scan.c
@@ -647,7 +647,8 @@ int cfg80211_wext_siwscan(struct net_device *dev,
         if (err) {
                 rdev->scan_req = NULL;
                 kfree(creq);
-        }
+        } else
+                nl80211_send_scan_start(rdev, dev);
  out:
         cfg80211_put_dev(rdev);
         return err;