This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
staging: r8712u: Fix driver to support ad-hoc mode
to the 2.6.39-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
staging-r8712u-fix-driver-to-support-ad-hoc-mode.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.39 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 62819fd9481021db7f87d5f61f2e2fd2be1dfcfa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Chua <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:25:14 -0500
Subject: staging: r8712u: Fix driver to support ad-hoc mode
From: Jeff Chua <[email protected]>
commit 62819fd9481021db7f87d5f61f2e2fd2be1dfcfa upstream.
Driver r8712u is unable to handle ad-hoc mode. The issue is that when
the driver first starts, there will not be an SSID for association.
The fix is to always call the "select and join from scan" routine when
in ad-hoc mode.
Note: Ad-hoc mode worked intermittently before. If the driver had
previously been associated, then things were OK.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Chua <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_set.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_set.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_set.c
@@ -68,7 +68,10 @@ static u8 do_join(struct _adapter *padap
pmlmepriv->fw_state |= _FW_UNDER_LINKING;
pmlmepriv->pscanned = plist;
pmlmepriv->to_join = true;
- if (_queue_empty(queue) == true) {
+
+ /* adhoc mode will start with an empty queue, but skip checking */
+ if (!check_fwstate(pmlmepriv, WIFI_ADHOC_STATE) &&
+ _queue_empty(queue)) {
if (pmlmepriv->fw_state & _FW_UNDER_LINKING)
pmlmepriv->fw_state ^= _FW_UNDER_LINKING;
/* when set_ssid/set_bssid for do_join(), but scanning queue
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