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[PATCH] softmac: Fix ESSID problem

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Victor Porton reported that the SoftMAC layer had random problem when setting the ESSID :
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8686 After investigation, it turned out to be
worse, the SoftMAC layer is left in an inconsistent state. The fix is pretty trivial.

Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.df>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Jean Tourrilhes 2007-07-09 20:37:36 -05:00 committed by John W. Linville
parent 426921bda1
commit 4cf92a3cd9
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net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_assoc.c
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@ -271,8 +271,11 @@ ieee80211softmac_assoc_work(struct work_struct *work)
*/ */
dprintk(KERN_INFO PFX "Associate: Scanning for networks first.\n"); dprintk(KERN_INFO PFX "Associate: Scanning for networks first.\n");
ieee80211softmac_notify(mac->dev, IEEE80211SOFTMAC_EVENT_SCAN_FINISHED, ieee80211softmac_assoc_notify_scan, NULL); ieee80211softmac_notify(mac->dev, IEEE80211SOFTMAC_EVENT_SCAN_FINISHED, ieee80211softmac_assoc_notify_scan, NULL);
if (ieee80211softmac_start_scan(mac)) if (ieee80211softmac_start_scan(mac)) {
dprintk(KERN_INFO PFX "Associate: failed to initiate scan. Is device up?\n"); dprintk(KERN_INFO PFX "Associate: failed to initiate scan. Is device up?\n");
mac->associnfo.associating = 0;
mac->associnfo.associated = 0;
}
goto out; goto out;
} else { } else {
mac->associnfo.associating = 0; mac->associnfo.associating = 0;