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authorBen Greear2011-01-28 10:20:47 -0800
committerJohn W. Linville2011-02-03 16:38:26 -0500
commiteeabee7e53f6fb5e63027519982b19616e8f166e (patch)
treea614d9ac017bed033d14505fe47d938ae307c27a /net/mac80211
parent75abde4d193fe300a2c1d3ee7f632eb777aa48b2 (diff)
mac80211: Be more careful when changing channels.
If we cannot set the channel type, set the channel back to the original. Don't update the driver hardware if nothing actually changed. Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/cfg.c19
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/cfg.c b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
index 4bc8a9250cfd..88b0884ebe6a 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
@@ -1215,6 +1215,9 @@ static int ieee80211_set_channel(struct wiphy *wiphy,
{
struct ieee80211_local *local = wiphy_priv(wiphy);
struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata = NULL;
+ struct ieee80211_channel *old_oper;
+ enum nl80211_channel_type old_oper_type;
+ enum nl80211_channel_type old_vif_oper_type= NL80211_CHAN_NO_HT;
if (netdev)
sdata = IEEE80211_DEV_TO_SUB_IF(netdev);
@@ -1232,13 +1235,23 @@ static int ieee80211_set_channel(struct wiphy *wiphy,
break;
}
- local->oper_channel = chan;
+ if (sdata)
+ old_vif_oper_type = sdata->vif.bss_conf.channel_type;
+ old_oper_type = local->_oper_channel_type;
if (!ieee80211_set_channel_type(local, sdata, channel_type))
return -EBUSY;
- ieee80211_hw_config(local, IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_CHANNEL);
- if (sdata && sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR)
+ old_oper = local->oper_channel;
+ local->oper_channel = chan;
+
+ /* Update driver if changes were actually made. */
+ if ((old_oper != local->oper_channel) ||
+ (old_oper_type != local->_oper_channel_type))
+ ieee80211_hw_config(local, IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_CHANNEL);
+
+ if ((sdata && sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR) &&
+ old_vif_oper_type != sdata->vif.bss_conf.channel_type)
ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify(sdata, BSS_CHANGED_HT);
return 0;