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From: timg@tpi.com (Tim Gardner)
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] ipw2200: change default policy for auto-associate
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:38:03 -0600 (MDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081014163803.AD89B5A1D8@sepang.rtg.net> (raw)

>From 6f6a49200c74553acac806b6987d5c661346ca00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:30:33 -0600
Subject: [PATCH v2] ipw2200: change default policy for auto-associate

Do not attempt association until directed to do so by a user space
application. In particular, this avoids race conditions with
NetworkManager association state.

Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
---
 Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 |    2 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.c          |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 b/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200
index 4f2a40f..80c7285 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200
+++ b/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ Where the supported parameter are:
 	driver.  If disabled, the driver will not attempt to scan 
 	for and associate to a network until it has been configured with 
 	one or more properties for the target network, for example configuring 
-	the network SSID.  Default is 1 (auto-associate)
+	the network SSID.  Default is 0 (do not auto-associate)
 	
 	Example: % modprobe ipw2200 associate=0
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.c
index dcce354..eb1230e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.c
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ static int channel = 0;
 static int mode = 0;
 
 static u32 ipw_debug_level;
-static int associate = 1;
+static int associate;
 static int auto_create = 1;
 static int led = 0;
 static int disable = 0;
-- 
1.5.6.3


             reply	other threads:[~2008-10-14 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-14 16:38 Tim Gardner [this message]
2008-10-14 16:52 ` [PATCH v2] ipw2200: change default policy for auto-associate Dan Williams
2008-10-14 17:04   ` Dan Williams

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