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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 02/16] wl1251: fix scan behaviour while not associated
    On Sat 2013-10-26 22:34:01, Pali Rohár wrote:
    > From: David Gnedt <david.gnedt@davizone.at>
    >
    > With a dissacociated card I often encoutered very long scan delays.
    >
    > My guess is that it has something to do with the cards DTIM handling and
    > another firmware bug mentioned in the TI WLAN driver, which is described as
    > the card may never end scanning if the channel is overloaded because it
    > can't send probe requests. I think the firmware somehow also tries to
    > receive DTIM messages when the BSSID is not set. Therefore most of the time
    > it waits for DTIM messages and can't do scanning work.
    >
    > Anyway we can workaround this misbehaviour by setting the HIGH_PRIORITY
    > bit for scans in disassociated state.
    >
    > Signed-off-by: David Gnedt <david.gnedt@davizone.at>

    I guess you should add your Signed-off-by: here (as you are sending
    the patch forward).

    Other than that:

    Reviewed-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>

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