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SIOCSIWFREQ while in NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION

Message ID f8e8b557-3e7b-cc1a-c31a-91f9d754e683@linaro.org
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Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz Jan. 5, 2017, 2:38 p.m. UTC 
On 01/05/2017 03:06 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
>> I am not sure it matters - if I understood your reply, there is no

>> valid use case to change the frequency in that mode (and all that

>> code should be removed);

> All of wext *is* being removed - slowly :)

> It's not longer default in the kernel configuration now.


ah thanks for the info. I should have checked!

>

> IIRC, there actually was a valid use case here - to set the frequency

> before you set the SSID - to be able to force a connection on that

> channel with wext.


ok, yes I thought this would make sense.

>

>> it seems to me that it is also your view that userspace (iwconfig)

>> should be fixed accordingly to not call the extensions?

> iwconfig should just be deleted and iw be used :-)


understood.

>

>> I am just trying to understand how the current code is supposed to

>> work  by exercising widely available user-space tools while debugging

>> the kernel.

> Heh, ok.

>

>> Actually the frequency gets programmed without errors when reverting

>> your commit http://tinyurl.com/ho4urp8 (which comes as a surprise as

>> well).

> Well, it's not my commit, but that makes sense. I suppose we should

> treat this as a regression, but reverting that doesn't seem like the

> right fix. Actually, I'm not convinced we should do monitor channel

> change anyway when you set the frequency with wext, so we can probably

> just remove that call there - want to send a patch to that effect?


do you mean this?

[jramirez@igloo ~ (debian-qcom-dragonboard410c-16.09-local $)]$ git diff



I tested the change above: we can now modify the channel/frequency when 
the SSID is not set in managed mode.
When the SSID is set however iwconfig does not report any error but 
channel/frequency doesn't change.

if you think this is acceptable I can submit a patch


> johannes
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Patch

diff --git a/net/wireless/wext-sme.c b/net/wireless/wext-sme.c
index a4e8af3..c56bac5 100644
--- a/net/wireless/wext-sme.c
+++ b/net/wireless/wext-sme.c
@@ -106,30 +106,7 @@  int cfg80211_mgd_wext_siwfreq(struct net_device *dev,
                         goto out;
         }

-
         wdev->wext.connect.channel = chan;
-
-   /*
-    * SSID is not set, we just want to switch monitor channel,
-    * this is really just backward compatibility, if the SSID
-    * is set then we use the channel to select the BSS to use
-    * to connect to instead. If we were connected on another
-    * channel we disconnected above and reconnect below.
-    */
-   if (chan && !wdev->wext.connect.ssid_len) {
-           struct cfg80211_chan_def chandef = {
-                   .width = NL80211_CHAN_WIDTH_20_NOHT,
-                   .center_freq1 = freq,
-           };
-
-           chandef.chan = ieee80211_get_channel(&rdev->wiphy, freq);
-           if (chandef.chan)
-                   err = cfg80211_set_monitor_channel(rdev, &chandef);
-           else
-                   err = -EINVAL;
-           goto out;
-   }
-
         err = cfg80211_mgd_wext_connect(rdev, wdev);
   out:
         wdev_unlock(wdev);