From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtl8187: always set MSR_LINK_ENEDCA flag with RTL8187B
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:07:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A8DF356.8000501@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200908202116.17847.herton@mandriva.com.br>
Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:
> RTL8187B always needs MSR_LINK_ENEDCA flag to be set even when it is in
> no link mode, otherwise it'll not be able to associate when this flag is
> not set after the change "mac80211: fix managed mode BSSID handling"
> (commit 9cef8737).
>
> By accident, setting BSSID of AP before association makes 8187B to
> successfuly associate even when ENEDCA flag isn't set, which was the
> case before the mac80211 change. But now the BSSID of AP we are trying
> to associate is only available after association is successful, and
> any attempt to associate without the needed flag doesn't work.
>
> Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
> ---
Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
I had just finished bisecting the problem reported in Bug #13960 when
this patch from Herton appeared in my mailbox, and it fixed the problem.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-21 1:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-21 0:16 [PATCH] rtl8187: always set MSR_LINK_ENEDCA flag with RTL8187B Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2009-08-21 1:07 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2009-08-21 3:54 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2009-08-21 12:29 ` Larry Finger
2009-08-22 22:06 ` Hin-Tak Leung
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