2009-01-06 01:49:10

by Alina Friedrichsen

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Subject: [PATCH] Fixed BSSID step 2: Don't scan if BSSID and channel are set manually

If you set a fixed BSSID and channel it's not necessary to scan for neighbors to merge, because you really don't want to merge with it. So don't do it.

Signed-off-by: Alina Friedrichsen <[email protected]>

diff -urN compat-wireless-2009-01-05.orig/net/mac80211/mlme.c compat-wireless-2009-01-05.work/net/mac80211/mlme.c
--- compat-wireless-2009-01-05.orig/net/mac80211/mlme.c 2009-01-06 01:55:57.000000000 +0100
+++ compat-wireless-2009-01-05/net/mac80211/mlme.c 2009-01-06 01:59:23.000000000 +0100
@@ -2031,6 +2031,10 @@
if (ieee80211_sta_active_ibss(sdata))
return;

+ if ((sdata->u.sta.flags & IEEE80211_STA_BSSID_SET) &&
+ (!(sdata->u.sta.flags & IEEE80211_STA_AUTO_CHANNEL_SEL)))
+ return;
+
printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: No active IBSS STAs - trying to scan for other "
"IBSS networks with same SSID (merge)\n", sdata->dev->name);
ieee80211_request_scan(sdata, ifsta->ssid, ifsta->ssid_len);

--
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Attachments:
step2-dont-scan-if-bssid-and-channel-set.patch (709.00 B)