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| author | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2010-01-27 14:23:17 -0500 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2010-01-27 15:02:03 -0500 |
| commit | d3d5621abf6d2105700795fcbdf784b9cb46b495 (patch) | |
| tree | fe85093f89b8a3005f762de35a3419a92949b9d2 /drivers/net/wireless/libertas/assoc.c | |
| parent | 47db3a677b533489d1a5a027282aa33f46dffa79 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-d3d5621abf6d2105700795fcbdf784b9cb46b495.tar.gz lwn-d3d5621abf6d2105700795fcbdf784b9cb46b495.zip | |
libertas: add comment re: v10 firmware key handling
Comment text suggested by Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> in
<1263952092.4481.2.camel@localhost.localdomain>.
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/libertas/assoc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/libertas/assoc.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/assoc.c b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/assoc.c index 0979b07799a0..f03d5e4e59c3 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/assoc.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/assoc.c @@ -2062,6 +2062,11 @@ void lbs_association_worker(struct work_struct *work) goto out; } + /* + * v10 FW wants WPA keys to be set/cleared before WEP key operations, + * otherwise it will fail to correctly associate to WEP networks. + * Other firmware versions don't appear to care. + */ if (test_bit(ASSOC_FLAG_WPA_MCAST_KEY, &assoc_req->flags) || test_bit(ASSOC_FLAG_WPA_UCAST_KEY, &assoc_req->flags)) { ret = assoc_helper_wpa_keys(priv, assoc_req); |