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Message-Id: <1237140665.24621.2.camel@johannes.local>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:11:05 +0100
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To: Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@...il.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>,
Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.29-rc8: Reported regressions from 2.6.28
On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 11:06 +0800, Jeff Chua wrote:
> The commit below is causing problem with associating with the hidden AP as well.
> 71c11fb57b924c160297ccd9e1761db598d00ac2 is first bad commit
> commit 71c11fb57b924c160297ccd9e1761db598d00ac2
> Author: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
> Date: Tue Oct 28 18:29:48 2008 +0100
>
> b43/legacy: remove SSID code
>
> The SSID programmed into the device is used by the ucode only
> to reply to probe requests, a functionality we disable anyway
> because it doesn't fit with the mac80211/hostapd programming
> model. Therefore, it isn't useful to program the SSID into
> device.
That's not believable, sorry. I know exactly what the microcode uses the
SSID here for, and it never uses it when we're in station mode.
johannes
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