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authorTim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>2008-10-14 10:38:03 -0600
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2008-10-31 19:00:24 -0400
commit5c7f9b7363bfd10e40cf1a28dfc9048417df7028 (patch)
treed1e346e54767b1f8573255534f966b0d3dbc928e
parentc12abae333ac550acacf9d324ed54b7d17ead0c0 (diff)
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ipw2x00: 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> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/README.ipw22002
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c4
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.c4
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 b/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200
index 4f2a40f1dbc6..80c728522c4c 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/ipw2100.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c
index 6e988d2486a7..079dbd07e2f6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
static int debug = 0;
static int mode = 0;
static int channel = 0;
-static int associate = 1;
+static int associate = 0;
static int disable = 0;
#ifdef CONFIG_PM
static struct ipw2100_fw ipw2100_firmware;
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ module_param(disable, int, 0444);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(debug, "debug level");
MODULE_PARM_DESC(mode, "network mode (0=BSS,1=IBSS,2=Monitor)");
MODULE_PARM_DESC(channel, "channel");
-MODULE_PARM_DESC(associate, "auto associate when scanning (default on)");
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(associate, "auto associate when scanning (default off)");
MODULE_PARM_DESC(disable, "manually disable the radio (default 0 [radio on])");
static u32 ipw2100_debug_level = IPW_DL_NONE;
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.c
index 13633d8274a3..6ec6de2960ee 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;
@@ -11913,7 +11913,7 @@ module_param(disable, int, 0444);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(disable, "manually disable the radio (default 0 [radio on])");
module_param(associate, int, 0444);
-MODULE_PARM_DESC(associate, "auto associate when scanning (default on)");
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(associate, "auto associate when scanning (default off)");
module_param(auto_create, int, 0444);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(auto_create, "auto create adhoc network (default on)");