There is not a valid reason to attempt setting the monitor channel while in managed mode. Since this code path only deals with this mode, remove the code block.
Signed-off-by: Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <[email protected]> --- net/wireless/wext-sme.c | 23 ----------------------- 1 file changed, 23 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/wireless/wext-sme.c b/net/wireless/wext-sme.c index 9951638..c434f19 100644 --- a/net/wireless/wext-sme.c +++ b/net/wireless/wext-sme.c @@ -105,30 +105,7 @@ int cfg80211_mgd_wext_siwfreq(struct net_device *dev, goto out; } - wdev->wext.connect.channel = chan; - - /* - * SSID is not set, we just want to switch monitor channel, - * this is really just backward compatibility, if the SSID - * is set then we use the channel to select the BSS to use - * to connect to instead. If we were connected on another - * channel we disconnected above and reconnect below. - */ - if (chan && !wdev->wext.connect.ssid_len) { - struct cfg80211_chan_def chandef = { - .width = NL80211_CHAN_WIDTH_20_NOHT, - .center_freq1 = freq, - }; - - chandef.chan = ieee80211_get_channel(&rdev->wiphy, freq); - if (chandef.chan) - err = cfg80211_set_monitor_channel(rdev, &chandef); - else - err = -EINVAL; - goto out; - } - err = cfg80211_mgd_wext_connect(rdev, wdev); out: wdev_unlock(wdev); -- 2.7.4
