Garrett D'Amore 已写入:

>James Carlson wrote:
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>>As part of investigating the troubles behind CR 6764186, Pengcheng
>>Chen found that dladm_wlan_scan can wipe out a connected interface
>>rather unexpectedly.
>>
>>The current dladm_wlan_scan() code does this before starting the scan:
>>
>>      status = do_get_linkstatus(linkid, &wl_status, sizeof (wl_status));
>>
>>and then this after completion:
>>
>>      if (wl_status != WL_CONNECTED) {
>>              status = do_get_linkstatus(linkid, &wl_status,
>>                  sizeof (&wl_status));
>>              if (status != DLADM_STATUS_OK)
>>                      goto done;
>>              if (wl_status == WL_CONNECTED)
>>                      (void) do_disconnect(linkid, buf, sizeof (buf));
>>
>>Variations on this logic appear to have been in the code since the
>>very first integration as part of PSARC 2007/140.  The effect of this
>>code is that if we become connected while the scan is running, we
>>immediately disconnect after the scan is done.
>>
>>What isn't clear is why the code needs to do this.  The questions this
>>brings up are:
>>
>>  - What was the original purpose of this code?  Does anyone remember?
>>    I can't seem to find a CR related to this code.
>>
>>  - Do (or should) the wireless drivers support running a scan at the
>>    same time that connect is requested?  If not, then whose
>>    responsibility should it be to ensure serialization of these
>>    operations?
>>
>>Any hints or pointers welcome.
>>  
>>    
>>
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>I've seen hardware implementations where "active scanning" cannot be 
>done while connected.
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>
There should be caused by hardware limitation, you know,
"scaning" needs to switch channels, it causes a little difficulties to 
some old hardwares.

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