> What I don't know is why something is calling > get_wireless_stats() when setting the essid. This happens way > before a call into lbs_set_essid() (the WEXT handler), as can > be seen from the log below. Okay, that question has now an answer: an strace of iwconfig (wireless-tools 29~pre22-1~bpo40+1) does open /proc/net/wireless, which in turn calls lbs_get_wireless_stats(). This happens before the SIOCSIWESSID ioctl(). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html