Subject: Re: [PATCH] WE-21 for bcm43xx (wireless-2.6 git)

From: Michael Buesch <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:52:45 +0200

On Thursday 31 August 2006 02:57, Larry Finger wrote:
> John,
> 
> Please apply Jean's patch to wireless-2.6. It should apply cleanly to the version you pushed earlier
> today (8/30). I have compiled and tested. For complete operation with WE-21, it also needs the patch
> entitled [PATCH 2.6.18] WE-21 support (core API) at
> (http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg13599.html). It works without that second patch, just at WE-20.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Larry
> 
> -------------------
> 
> Patch to update bcm43xx-SoftMAC for WE-21.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <[email-masked]>
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> diff -u a/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c b/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c
> --- a/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c	2006-08-29 14:45:56.000000000 -0700
> +++ b/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c	2006-08-30 14:56:35.000000000 -0700
> @@ -63,6 +63,12 @@ ieee80211softmac_wx_get_scan_results(str
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ieee80211softmac_wx_get_scan_results);
> 
> +#if WIRELESS_EXT > 20
> +#define IW_ESSID_FIX	0
> +#else
> +#define IW_ESSID_FIX	1
> +#endif

Eh, was this useless #if in the original patch I signed-off, too?
Because I want to revert my sign-off. :)
This #if is useless, because we always deal with only one single
WE version in the kernel. #if WIRELESS_EXT will always be true.
So remove this and also remove the other #if below.

>  int
>  ieee80211softmac_wx_set_essid(struct net_device *net_dev,
>  			      struct iw_request_info *info,
> @@ -80,10 +86,10 @@ ieee80211softmac_wx_set_essid(struct net
>  	 * If it's our network, ignore the change, we're already doing it!
>  	 */
>  	if((sm->associnfo.associating || sm->associated) &&
> -	   (data->essid.flags && data->essid.length && extra)) {
> +	   (data->essid.flags && data->essid.length)) {
>  		/* Get the associating network */
>  		n = ieee80211softmac_get_network_by_bssid(sm, sm->associnfo.bssid);
> -		if(n && n->essid.len == (data->essid.length - 1) &&
> +		if(n && n->essid.len == (data->essid.length - IW_ESSID_FIX) &&
>  		   !memcmp(n->essid.data, extra, n->essid.len)) {
>  			dprintk(KERN_INFO PFX "Already associating or associated to "MAC_FMT"\n",
>  				MAC_ARG(sm->associnfo.bssid));
> @@ -109,8 +115,8 @@ ieee80211softmac_wx_set_essid(struct net
>  	sm->associnfo.static_essid = 0;
>  	sm->associnfo.assoc_wait = 0;
> 
> -	if (data->essid.flags && data->essid.length && extra /*required?*/) {
> -		length = min(data->essid.length - 1, IW_ESSID_MAX_SIZE);
> +	if (data->essid.flags && data->essid.length) {
> +		length = min((int) data->essid.length - IW_ESSID_FIX, IW_ESSID_MAX_SIZE);
>  		if (length) {
>  			memcpy(sm->associnfo.req_essid.data, extra, length);
>  			sm->associnfo.static_essid = 1;
> diff -u a/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_wx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_wx.c
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_wx.c	2006-08-29 14:46:08.000000000 -0700
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_wx.c	2006-08-30 14:57:31.000000000 -0700
> @@ -334,7 +334,11 @@ static int bcm43xx_wx_get_nick(struct ne
>  	size_t len;
> 
>  	mutex_lock(&bcm->mutex);
> +#if WIRELESS_EXT > 20
> +	len = strlen(bcm->nick);
> +#else
>  	len = strlen(bcm->nick) + 1;
> +#endif
>  	memcpy(extra, bcm->nick, len);
>  	data->data.length = (__u16)len;
>  	data->data.flags = 1;
> 
> =======
> 
> 

-- 
Greetings Michael.