[PATCH] libertas: scan behaviour consistency improvements

Daniel Drake dsd at laptop.org
Wed Sep 21 13:43:59 EDT 2011


When scanning for the broadcast SSID, there is no need to add the
SSID TLV (restoring the behaviour of the driver behaviour in the wext
days, confirmed in Marvell specifications).

If bssid is unspecified, the current scan code will usually fire off an
active scan probing for the specific requested SSID. However, if a scan
is ongoing (or has just finished), those scan results will be used
instead (even if that scan is totally different, e.g. a passive scan on
channel 4 for a different SSID). Fix this inconsistency by always
firing off a scan when associating without a bssid.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c |   33 +++++++++++++++++----------------
 drivers/net/wireless/libertas/dev.h |    1 -
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c
index b456a53..93e5dea 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c
@@ -691,7 +691,7 @@ static void lbs_scan_worker(struct work_struct *work)
 	tlv = scan_cmd->tlvbuffer;
 
 	/* add SSID TLV */
-	if (priv->scan_req->n_ssids)
+	if (priv->scan_req->n_ssids && priv->scan_req->ssids[0].ssid_len > 0)
 		tlv += lbs_add_ssid_tlv(tlv,
 					priv->scan_req->ssids[0].ssid,
 					priv->scan_req->ssids[0].ssid_len);
@@ -732,7 +732,6 @@ static void lbs_scan_worker(struct work_struct *work)
 			cfg80211_scan_done(priv->scan_req, false);
 
 		priv->scan_req = NULL;
-		priv->last_scan = jiffies;
 	}
 
 	/* Restart network */
@@ -1295,24 +1294,26 @@ static int lbs_cfg_connect(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
 	lbs_deb_enter(LBS_DEB_CFG80211);
 
 	if (!sme->bssid) {
-		/* Run a scan if one isn't in-progress already and if the last
-		 * scan was done more than 2 seconds ago.
-		 */
-		if (priv->scan_req == NULL &&
-		    time_after(jiffies, priv->last_scan + (2 * HZ))) {
-			struct cfg80211_scan_request *creq;
+		struct cfg80211_scan_request *creq;
 
-			creq = _new_connect_scan_req(wiphy, sme);
-			if (!creq) {
-				ret = -EINVAL;
-				goto done;
-			}
+		/*
+		 * Scan for the requested network after waiting for existing
+		 * scans to finish.
+		 */
+		lbs_deb_assoc("assoc: waiting for existing scans\n");
+		wait_event_interruptible_timeout(priv->scan_q,
+						 (priv->scan_req == NULL),
+						 (15 * HZ));
 
-			lbs_deb_assoc("assoc: scanning for compatible AP\n");
-			_internal_start_scan(priv, true, creq);
+		creq = _new_connect_scan_req(wiphy, sme);
+		if (!creq) {
+			ret = -EINVAL;
+			goto done;
 		}
 
-		/* Wait for any in-progress scan to complete */
+		lbs_deb_assoc("assoc: scanning for compatible AP\n");
+		_internal_start_scan(priv, true, creq);
+
 		lbs_deb_assoc("assoc: waiting for scan to complete\n");
 		wait_event_interruptible_timeout(priv->scan_q,
 						 (priv->scan_req == NULL),
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/dev.h b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/dev.h
index adb3490..5ac4d17 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/dev.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/dev.h
@@ -167,7 +167,6 @@ struct lbs_private {
 	wait_queue_head_t scan_q;
 	/* Whether the scan was initiated internally and not by cfg80211 */
 	bool internal_scan;
-	unsigned long last_scan;
 };
 
 extern struct cmd_confirm_sleep confirm_sleep;
-- 
1.7.6.2




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