hi! Please do test this patch out! This unblocks a whole lot of tidying up and restructuring of the wifi drivers to make them more predictable!
-a On 20 February 2016 at 02:06, Andriy Voskoboinyk <[email protected]> wrote: >> hi, >> >> andriy has a few reviews out that tidy up some things, which I'd reply >> to, but .. reviews is offline. So, here's the 30 second version: >> >> * the net80211 taskqueue runs the software scan engine, and the >> software scan engine currently sleeps whilst it's running. >> >> This means that if you put newstate, deferred transmit, etc into the >> net80211 taskqueue, then it just won't run during scan. >> >> The net80211 software scan thing should be modified to not sleep >> whilst it's waiting for scan results and instead just kick off another >> timer event to finish that part of the loop. Then yes, we can just >> migrate * to the net80211 task queue and use it for all serialisation >> of a wifi driver. >> >> (And yes, I'd like to see that done ASAP..) >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> -adrian > > > Hi, > > I have replaced sleeping on conditional variable inside scan task > with scan_curchan task rescheduling (so this problem should be fixed now). > > For everyone, who wishes to test: apply the attached patch > (merged from D5133, D5137, D5139, D5140, D5142, D5143, D5145, D5147, D5148 > and D5152) > and rebuild + install the kernel. Scan should work as before. > > Thanks! _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
