ath9k: fix regression on beacon loss after bgscan
When we return to the home channel we were never reseting our beacon timers, this was casued by the fact that the scanning flag was still on even after we returned to our home channel. There are also other reasons why we would get a reset and if we are not off channel we always need to resynch our beacon timers, because a reset will clear them. This bug is a regression introduced on 2.6.36. The order of the changes are as follows: 5ee08656 - Sat Jul 31 - ath9k: prevent calibration during off-channel activity a0daa0e7 - Tue Jul 27 - Revert "mac80211: fix sw scan bracketing" 543708be - Fri Jun 18 - mac80211: fix sw scan bracketing mcgrof@tux ~/linux-2.6-allstable (git::master)$ git describe \ --contains 5ee08656 v2.6.36-rc1~43^2~34^2~22 mcgrof@tux ~/linux-2.6-allstable (git::master)$ git describe \ --contains a0daa0e7 v2.6.36-rc1~571^2~64^2~13 mcgrof@tux ~/linux-2.6-allstable (git::master)$ git describe \ --contains 543708be v2.6.36-rc1~571^2~107^2~187 So 5ee08656 would have worked if a0daa0e7 was not committed but it was so this means 5ee08656 was broken since it assumed that when we were in the channel change routine the scan flag would be lifted. As it turns out the scan flag will be set when we are already on the home channel. For more details refer to: http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=5715 These issues will need to be considered for our solution on reshifting the scan complete callback location on mac80211 on current development kernel work. This patch has stable fixes which apply down to [2.6.36+] Cc: stable@kernel.org Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com> Cc: Amod Bodas <amod.bodas@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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