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iwlwifi: manage IBSS station properly

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Currently iwlwifi will eventually exhaust the station
table when adding the BSSID station for IBSS mode,
unless the interface is set down.

The new mac80211 ibss joined/left notification allows
us to fix that easily by moving the code to add the
IBSS station to the notification, and also adding
code to remove it again when we leave the IBSS.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
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Johannes Berg
2010-04-28 08:44:52 -07:00
committed by Reinette Chatre
parent c0222df86e
commit 1fa61b2e79
14 changed files with 66 additions and 28 deletions
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drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c
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@ -1960,6 +1960,15 @@ void iwl_bss_info_changed(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
iwl_set_no_assoc(priv);
}
if (changes & BSS_CHANGED_IBSS) {
ret = priv->cfg->ops->lib->manage_ibss_station(priv, vif,
bss_conf->ibss_joined);
if (ret)
IWL_ERR(priv, "failed to %s IBSS station %pM\n",
bss_conf->ibss_joined ? "add" : "remove",
bss_conf->bssid);
}
mutex_unlock(&priv->mutex);
IWL_DEBUG_MAC80211(priv, "leave\n");