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author | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2010-05-05 16:14:16 -0400 |
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committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2010-05-05 16:14:16 -0400 |
commit | 83163244f845c296a118ce85c653872dbff6abfe (patch) | |
tree | ce2eac695a1c198f23d537e20ed86c16ece21f7e /drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-lib.c | |
parent | 0a12761bcd5646691c5d16dd93df84d1b8849285 (diff) | |
parent | adfba3c7c026a6a5560d2a43fefc9b198cb74462 (diff) | |
download | linux-83163244f845c296a118ce85c653872dbff6abfe.tar.bz2 |
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem
Conflicts:
drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/cmd.c
drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/main.c
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-lib.c')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-lib.c | 23 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-lib.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-lib.c index 4bd0aecc7713..a27347425968 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-lib.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-lib.c @@ -1395,16 +1395,29 @@ void iwlagn_request_scan(struct iwl_priv *priv) rate = IWL_RATE_1M_PLCP; rate_flags = RATE_MCS_CCK_MSK; } - scan->good_CRC_th = 0; + scan->good_CRC_th = IWL_GOOD_CRC_TH_DISABLED; break; case IEEE80211_BAND_5GHZ: rate = IWL_RATE_6M_PLCP; /* - * If active scaning is requested but a certain channel - * is marked passive, we can do active scanning if we - * detect transmissions. + * If active scanning is requested but a certain channel is + * marked passive, we can do active scanning if we detect + * transmissions. + * + * There is an issue with some firmware versions that triggers + * a sysassert on a "good CRC threshold" of zero (== disabled), + * on a radar channel even though this means that we should NOT + * send probes. + * + * The "good CRC threshold" is the number of frames that we + * need to receive during our dwell time on a channel before + * sending out probes -- setting this to a huge value will + * mean we never reach it, but at the same time work around + * the aforementioned issue. Thus use IWL_GOOD_CRC_TH_NEVER + * here instead of IWL_GOOD_CRC_TH_DISABLED. */ - scan->good_CRC_th = is_active ? IWL_GOOD_CRC_TH : 0; + scan->good_CRC_th = is_active ? IWL_GOOD_CRC_TH_DEFAULT : + IWL_GOOD_CRC_TH_NEVER; break; default: IWL_WARN(priv, "Invalid scan band count\n"); |