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authorVasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>2009-06-12 10:55:55 +0530
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2009-07-10 14:57:41 -0400
commitc4f9f16b309b65f9f578ec4ba78b3efa106cf65d (patch)
treea600d4fe122146e3935a56f004eb316182aa4fd3 /drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/beacon.c
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ath9k: Make sure we configure a non-zero beacon interval
This patch moves the sanity check on beacon interval which was done only for mesh mode to all operating modes just to be safe. Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/beacon.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/beacon.c15
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/beacon.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/beacon.c
index 3639a2e6987d..45c4ea57616b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/beacon.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/beacon.c
@@ -674,13 +674,6 @@ static void ath_beacon_config_adhoc(struct ath_softc *sc,
intval = conf->beacon_interval & ATH9K_BEACON_PERIOD;
- /*
- * It looks like mac80211 may end up using beacon interval of zero in
- * some cases (at least for mesh point). Avoid getting into an
- * infinite loop by using a bit safer value instead..
- */
- if (intval == 0)
- intval = 100;
/* Pull nexttbtt forward to reflect the current TSF */
@@ -745,6 +738,14 @@ void ath_beacon_config(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ieee80211_vif *vif)
iftype = sc->sc_ah->opmode;
}
+ /*
+ * It looks like mac80211 may end up using beacon interval of zero in
+ * some cases (at least for mesh point). Avoid getting into an
+ * infinite loop by using a bit safer value instead. To be safe,
+ * do sanity check on beacon interval for all operating modes.
+ */
+ if (cur_conf->beacon_interval == 0)
+ cur_conf->beacon_interval = 100;
switch (iftype) {
case NL80211_IFTYPE_AP:
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