[PATCH] Avoid unnecessary triggering of rescans

[Helmut Schaa]

Hi,

the attached patch fixes an issue I noticed when playing around with hidden 
APs and the iwlwifi-driver.

Initiating a scan (with iwlist for example) while connected to an hidden AP 
results (dependend on the driver) in wpa_supplicant repeatedly triggering 
rescans every few seconds.

This happens because of wpa_supplicant getting the SIOCGIWSCAN from iwlwifi 
when the scan is finished. wpa_supplicant handles the scan results and 
triggers a new scan due to the currently connected Essid not showing up in 
the list (as it is not broadcasted).

Since iwlwifi mostly needs more then three seconds for scanning wpa_supplicant 
will then hit the scan timeout (which is three seconds) and will again 
initiate a new scan.

The patch changes the behavior to only initiate a rescan if wpa_supplicant is 
in state WPA_SCANNING.

The patch is against 0.5.8 but should work with current development branch as 
well.

I'll appreciate any comments :)

Thanks,
Helmut
 
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