From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
ipw2100-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ipw2200: expire and use oldest BSS on adhoc create
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 14:38:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1212086308.25805.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
If there are no networks on the free list, expire the oldest one when
creating a new adhoc network. Because ipw2200 and the ieee80211 stack
don't actually cull old networks and place them back on the free list
unless they are needed for new probe responses, over time the free list
would become empty and creating an adhoc network would fail due to the !
list_empty(...) check.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.c
index d74c061..db2bf46 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.c
@@ -7558,8 +7558,31 @@ static int ipw_associate(void *data)
priv->ieee->iw_mode == IW_MODE_ADHOC &&
priv->config & CFG_ADHOC_CREATE &&
priv->config & CFG_STATIC_ESSID &&
- priv->config & CFG_STATIC_CHANNEL &&
- !list_empty(&priv->ieee->network_free_list)) {
+ priv->config & CFG_STATIC_CHANNEL) {
+ /* Use oldest network if the free list is empty */
+ if (list_empty(&priv->ieee->network_free_list)) {
+ struct ieee80211_network *oldest = NULL;
+ struct ieee80211_network *target;
+ DECLARE_MAC_BUF(mac);
+
+ list_for_each_entry(target, &priv->ieee->network_list, list) {
+ if ((oldest == NULL) ||
+ (target->last_scanned < oldest->last_scanned))
+ oldest = target;
+ }
+
+ /* If there are no more slots, expire the oldest */
+ list_del(&oldest->list);
+ target = oldest;
+ IPW_DEBUG_ASSOC("Expired '%s' (%s) from "
+ "network list.\n",
+ escape_essid(target->ssid,
+ target->ssid_len),
+ print_mac(mac, target->bssid));
+ list_add_tail(&target->list,
+ &priv->ieee->network_free_list);
+ }
+
element = priv->ieee->network_free_list.next;
network = list_entry(element, struct ieee80211_network, list);
ipw_adhoc_create(priv, network);
next reply other threads:[~2008-05-29 18:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-29 18:38 Dan Williams [this message]
2008-05-30 0:56 ` [PATCH] ipw2200: expire and use oldest BSS on adhoc create Zhu Yi
2008-05-30 17:42 ` Dan Williams
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