From: Jean Tourrilhes Victor Porton reported that the SoftMAC layer had random problem when setting the ESSID : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8686 After investigation, it turned out to be worse, the SoftMAC layer is left in an inconsistent state. The fix is pretty trivial. Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes Acked-by: Michael Buesch Acked-by: Larry Finger Acked-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_assoc.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_assoc.c +++ b/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_assoc.c @@ -271,8 +271,11 @@ ieee80211softmac_assoc_work(struct work_ */ dprintk(KERN_INFO PFX "Associate: Scanning for networks first.\n"); ieee80211softmac_notify(mac->dev, IEEE80211SOFTMAC_EVENT_SCAN_FINISHED, ieee80211softmac_assoc_notify_scan, NULL); - if (ieee80211softmac_start_scan(mac)) + if (ieee80211softmac_start_scan(mac)) { dprintk(KERN_INFO PFX "Associate: failed to initiate scan. Is device up?\n"); + mac->associnfo.associating = 0; + mac->associnfo.associated = 0; + } goto out; } else { mac->associnfo.associating = 0; -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/