Re: [PATCH V2] staging: rtl8188eu: Fix incorrect response to SIOCGIWESSID

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On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 01:32:38PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> When not associated with an AP, wifi device drivers should respond to the
> SIOCGIWESSID ioctl with a zero-length string for the SSID, which is the
> behavior expected by dhcpcd.
> 
> Currently, this driver returns an error code (-1) from the ioctl call,
> which causes dhcpcd to assume that the device is not a wireless interface
> and therefore it fails to work correctly with it thereafter.
> 
> This problem was reported and tested at
> https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8188eu/issues/234.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> v2 - completed missing subject

Ah, nevermind, you already did...
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