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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> | 2009-04-20 14:36:57 -0700 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2009-04-22 16:57:18 -0400 |
| commit | b097ad29752f909ec1121ac3dc57d348f08dd8d7 (patch) | |
| tree | 4b5e4b302771c74a8771199112c54f4e6b3144bc /drivers | |
| parent | 1ecf9fc1317f8df91eb1d74360f408558d657478 (diff) | |
iwlwifi: support truly passive scanning
If passive scanning is requested we should not ask the
microcode to do active scanning after detecting traffic
on a channel -- that should only be used when an active
scan is requested but some channels are marked passive.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-scan.c | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c | 7 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-scan.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-scan.c index 9edcf8c76b2..25311e1ceed 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-scan.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-scan.c @@ -712,7 +712,12 @@ static void iwl_bg_request_scan(struct work_struct *data) } else if (priv->scan_bands & BIT(IEEE80211_BAND_5GHZ)) { band = IEEE80211_BAND_5GHZ; rate = IWL_RATE_6M_PLCP; - scan->good_CRC_th = IWL_GOOD_CRC_TH; + /* + * If active scaning is requested but a certain channel + * is marked passive, we can do active scanning if we + * detect transmissions. + */ + scan->good_CRC_th = is_active ? IWL_GOOD_CRC_TH : 0; /* Force use of chains B and C (0x6) for scan Rx for 4965 * Avoid A (0x1) because of its off-channel reception on A-band. diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c index 4df9b4b5072..c15d0cfb93b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c @@ -3078,7 +3078,12 @@ static void iwl3945_bg_request_scan(struct work_struct *data) band = IEEE80211_BAND_2GHZ; } else if (priv->scan_bands & BIT(IEEE80211_BAND_5GHZ)) { scan->tx_cmd.rate = IWL_RATE_6M_PLCP; - scan->good_CRC_th = IWL_GOOD_CRC_TH; + /* + * If active scaning is requested but a certain channel + * is marked passive, we can do active scanning if we + * detect transmissions. + */ + scan->good_CRC_th = is_active ? IWL_GOOD_CRC_TH : 0; band = IEEE80211_BAND_5GHZ; } else { IWL_WARN(priv, "Invalid scan band count\n"); |