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orinoco: always use latest BSS info when caching scan results
authorDan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Wed, 5 Dec 2007 16:01:23 +0000 (11:01 -0500)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:05:55 +0000 (15:05 -0800)
Always copy the latest BSS information from the firmware's results to
the driver's BSS table to ensure that everything is up-to-date (IEs,
supported rates, encryption status, etc).

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c

index 100ae333df4d3eb6868012544014a0f7516ac009..6d13a0d15a0cba9818b21852e89da8dc0a0c22cf 100644 (file)
@@ -1194,7 +1194,7 @@ static int orinoco_process_scan_results(struct net_device *dev,
        /* Read the entries one by one */
        for (; offset + atom_len <= len; offset += atom_len) {
                int found = 0;
-               bss_element *bss;
+               bss_element *bss = NULL;
 
                /* Get next atom */
                atom = (union hermes_scan_info *) (buf + offset);
@@ -1209,7 +1209,6 @@ static int orinoco_process_scan_results(struct net_device *dev,
                        if (memcmp(bss->bss.a.essid, atom->a.essid,
                              le16_to_cpu(atom->a.essid_len)))
                                continue;
-                       bss->last_scanned = jiffies;
                        found = 1;
                        break;
                }
@@ -1220,10 +1219,14 @@ static int orinoco_process_scan_results(struct net_device *dev,
                                         bss_element, list);
                        list_del(priv->bss_free_list.next);
 
-                       memcpy(bss, atom, sizeof(bss->bss));
-                       bss->last_scanned = jiffies;
                        list_add_tail(&bss->list, &priv->bss_list);
                }
+
+               if (bss) {
+                       /* Always update the BSS to get latest beacon info */
+                       memcpy(&bss->bss, atom, sizeof(bss->bss));
+                       bss->last_scanned = jiffies;
+               }
        }
 
        return 0;