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authorAvinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>2012-05-08 18:30:22 -0700
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2012-05-16 12:46:35 -0400
commit4f02341ac27f70700a4fff4f3671857ca4227822 (patch)
treeb6e1997054f1978bb3f52b06b3a1b81795557c24 /drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex
parentmwifiex: stop BSS in deauthentication handling (diff)
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mwifiex: handle interface type changes correctly
mlan0: managed or ibss The iftype can be changed from STATION to ADHOC, and vice versa. uap0: AP only The iftype cannot be changed. Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Yogesh Ashok Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Kiran Divekar <dkiran@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c64
1 files changed, 46 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c
index f3465fc89b40..a8fa5cba2028 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c
@@ -497,31 +497,59 @@ mwifiex_cfg80211_change_virtual_intf(struct wiphy *wiphy,
int ret;
struct mwifiex_private *priv = mwifiex_netdev_get_priv(dev);
- if (priv->bss_mode == type) {
- wiphy_warn(wiphy, "already set to required type\n");
- return 0;
- }
-
- priv->bss_mode = type;
-
- switch (type) {
+ switch (dev->ieee80211_ptr->iftype) {
case NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC:
- dev->ieee80211_ptr->iftype = NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC;
- wiphy_dbg(wiphy, "info: setting interface type to adhoc\n");
+ switch (type) {
+ case NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION:
+ break;
+ case NL80211_IFTYPE_UNSPECIFIED:
+ wiphy_warn(wiphy, "%s: kept type as IBSS\n", dev->name);
+ case NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC: /* This shouldn't happen */
+ return 0;
+ case NL80211_IFTYPE_AP:
+ default:
+ wiphy_err(wiphy, "%s: changing to %d not supported\n",
+ dev->name, type);
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+ }
break;
case NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION:
- dev->ieee80211_ptr->iftype = NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION;
- wiphy_dbg(wiphy, "info: setting interface type to managed\n");
+ switch (type) {
+ case NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC:
+ break;
+ case NL80211_IFTYPE_UNSPECIFIED:
+ wiphy_warn(wiphy, "%s: kept type as STA\n", dev->name);
+ case NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION: /* This shouldn't happen */
+ return 0;
+ case NL80211_IFTYPE_AP:
+ default:
+ wiphy_err(wiphy, "%s: changing to %d not supported\n",
+ dev->name, type);
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+ }
+ break;
+ case NL80211_IFTYPE_AP:
+ switch (type) {
+ case NL80211_IFTYPE_UNSPECIFIED:
+ wiphy_warn(wiphy, "%s: kept type as AP\n", dev->name);
+ case NL80211_IFTYPE_AP: /* This shouldn't happen */
+ return 0;
+ case NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC:
+ case NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION:
+ default:
+ wiphy_err(wiphy, "%s: changing to %d not supported\n",
+ dev->name, type);
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+ }
break;
- case NL80211_IFTYPE_UNSPECIFIED:
- dev->ieee80211_ptr->iftype = NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION;
- wiphy_dbg(wiphy, "info: setting interface type to auto\n");
- return 0;
default:
- wiphy_err(wiphy, "unknown interface type: %d\n", type);
- return -EINVAL;
+ wiphy_err(wiphy, "%s: unknown iftype: %d\n",
+ dev->name, dev->ieee80211_ptr->iftype);
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
}
+ dev->ieee80211_ptr->iftype = type;
+ priv->bss_mode = type;
mwifiex_deauthenticate(priv, NULL);
priv->sec_info.authentication_mode = NL80211_AUTHTYPE_OPEN_SYSTEM;