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| author | Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> | 2008-10-14 10:38:03 -0600 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2008-10-31 19:00:24 -0400 |
| commit | 5c7f9b7363bfd10e40cf1a28dfc9048417df7028 (patch) | |
| tree | d1e346e54767b1f8573255534f966b0d3dbc928e | |
| parent | c12abae333ac550acacf9d324ed54b7d17ead0c0 (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.ipw2200 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.c | 4 |
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)"); |