Re: [RFC] wireless: Fix rate mask for scan request

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 14:44 +0530, Rajkumar Manoharan wrote:
> The scan request received from cfg80211_connect do not
> have proper rate mast. So the probe request sent on each
> channel do not have proper the supported rates ie.
> 
> Cc: stable@kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
> ---
>  net/wireless/sme.c |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/wireless/sme.c b/net/wireless/sme.c
> index b7b6ff8..8b6ef34 100644
> --- a/net/wireless/sme.c
> +++ b/net/wireless/sme.c
> @@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ static int cfg80211_conn_scan(struct wireless_dev *wdev)
>  			     i++, j++)
>  				request->channels[i] =
>  					&wdev->wiphy->bands[band]->channels[j];
> +			request->rates[band] = (u32) -1;

Please use
	(1 << wiphy->bands[band]->n_bitrates) - 1;

so we don't have invalid bits set.

Also, CC stable doesn't work that way -- you don't CC them, you just
write into it "Cc: stable@kernel.org". This makes them pick out the
patch later once it got applied.

johannes