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[PATCH] softmac: Fix ESSID problem
authorJean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Tue, 10 Jul 2007 01:37:36 +0000 (20:37 -0500)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:27:00 +0000 (14:27 -0400)
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>
net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_assoc.c

index cc8110bdd5799359e95be983db36ba1616b6dff1..afb6c6698b279f84bbaf1e258e4de94d76e53fee 100644 (file)
@@ -271,8 +271,11 @@ ieee80211softmac_assoc_work(struct work_struct *work)
                         */
                        dprintk(KERN_INFO PFX "Associate: Scanning for networks first.\n");
                        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");
+                               mac->associnfo.associating = 0;
+                               mac->associnfo.associated = 0;
+                       }
                        goto out;
                } else {
                        mac->associnfo.associating = 0;