cfg80211: fix channel setting for wext
authorAbhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:23:14 +0000 (13:23 -0800)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:14:58 +0000 (17:14 -0500)
commit5f6120335c701ba07d5151206071f4d6ccaa684f
treecc7270bd3b0b617d4c162721a3adedc648aacab3
parenta0e803a2112398150daa4d88c9d58409e0cf0b6c
cfg80211: fix channel setting for wext

Patch fixes the bug at
http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2139

Currently we cannot set the channel using wext extension
if we have already associated and disconnected. As
cfg80211_mgd_wext_siwfreq will not switch the channel if ssid is set.
This fixes it by clearing the ssid.
Following is the sequence which it tries to fix.
modprobe iwlagn
iwconfig wlan0 essid ""
ifconfig wlan0 down
iwconfig wlan0 chan X

wext is marked as deprecate.If we use nl80211 we can easily play with
setting the channel.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
net/wireless/sme.c