Re: 2.6.29-rc8: Reported regressions from 2.6.28

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On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 11:06 +0800, Jeff Chua wrote:

> The commit below is causing problem with associating with the hidden AP as well.

> 71c11fb57b924c160297ccd9e1761db598d00ac2 is first bad commit
> commit 71c11fb57b924c160297ccd9e1761db598d00ac2
> Author: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Tue Oct 28 18:29:48 2008 +0100
> 
>     b43/legacy: remove SSID code
> 
>     The SSID programmed into the device is used by the ucode only
>     to reply to probe requests, a functionality we disable anyway
>     because it doesn't fit with the mac80211/hostapd programming
>     model. Therefore, it isn't useful to program the SSID into
>     device.

That's not believable, sorry. I know exactly what the microcode uses the
SSID here for, and it never uses it when we're in station mode.

johannes

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