[PATCH] libertas: remove dump_survey implementation

Vasily Khoruzhick anarsoul at gmail.com
Fri Mar 16 13:59:46 EDT 2012


2012/3/15 Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org>:
> libertas provides a dump_survey implementation based on reading of
> a RSSI value. However, this RSSI value is calculated based on the
> last received beacon from the associated AP - it is not a good
> way of surveying a channel in general, and even causes an error
> if the card is not associated to a network.
>
> As this is not appropriate as a survey, remove it. This fixes an
> issue where something in userspace is repeatedly calling site-survey
> during boot, resulting in many repeated errors as the RSSI value cannot
> be read before associating.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org>

I have pretty similar patch and tested it on Zipit Z2 with libertas_spi.
What's interesting -- wpa_supplicant with -Dwext does not trigger this bug, but
only with -Dnl80211 it does.

Have my:

Tested-by: Vasily Khoruzhick <anarsoul at gmail.com>

> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c |   34 ----------------------------------
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c
> index b456a53..8ea15d3 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c
> @@ -1593,39 +1593,6 @@ static int lbs_cfg_get_station(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
>
>
>  /*
> - * "Site survey", here just current channel and noise level
> - */
> -
> -static int lbs_get_survey(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
> -       int idx, struct survey_info *survey)
> -{
> -       struct lbs_private *priv = wiphy_priv(wiphy);
> -       s8 signal, noise;
> -       int ret;
> -
> -       if (idx != 0)
> -               ret = -ENOENT;
> -
> -       lbs_deb_enter(LBS_DEB_CFG80211);
> -
> -       survey->channel = ieee80211_get_channel(wiphy,
> -               ieee80211_channel_to_frequency(priv->channel,
> -                                              IEEE80211_BAND_2GHZ));
> -
> -       ret = lbs_get_rssi(priv, &signal, &noise);
> -       if (ret == 0) {
> -               survey->filled = SURVEY_INFO_NOISE_DBM;
> -               survey->noise = noise;
> -       }
> -
> -       lbs_deb_leave_args(LBS_DEB_CFG80211, "ret %d", ret);
> -       return ret;
> -}
> -
> -
> -
> -
> -/*
>  * Change interface
>  */
>
> @@ -2024,7 +1991,6 @@ static struct cfg80211_ops lbs_cfg80211_ops = {
>        .del_key = lbs_cfg_del_key,
>        .set_default_key = lbs_cfg_set_default_key,
>        .get_station = lbs_cfg_get_station,
> -       .dump_survey = lbs_get_survey,
>        .change_virtual_intf = lbs_change_intf,
>        .join_ibss = lbs_join_ibss,
>        .leave_ibss = lbs_leave_ibss,
> --
> 1.7.7.6
>
>
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