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Re: [PATCH] wireless: display wext SSID when connected by cfg80211

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On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 10:05 +0800, Zhu Yi wrote:
> cfg80211 displays correct link info when connected by wext. But if
> the connection is setup by cfg80211, wext cannot display the SSID.
> This patch fixed this issue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> diff --git a/net/wireless/wext-sme.c b/net/wireless/wext-sme.c
> index 7bacbd1..48c165b 100644
> --- a/net/wireless/wext-sme.c
> +++ b/net/wireless/wext-sme.c
> @@ -210,6 +210,10 @@ int cfg80211_mgd_wext_giwessid(struct net_device *dev,
>  		data->flags = 1;
>  		data->length = wdev->wext.connect.ssid_len;
>  		memcpy(ssid, wdev->wext.connect.ssid, data->length);
> +	} else if (wdev->ssid && wdev->ssid_len) {
> +		data->flags = 1;
> +		data->length = wdev->ssid_len;
> +		memcpy(ssid, wdev->ssid, data->length);

Hmm. I suspect using wdev->current_bss would be less prone to breakage,
since we've had some trouble with wdev->ssid already, and current_bss
has to be present all the time for various nl80211 too. I guess
ultimately it doesn't matter that much since somebody will see the
problem.

johannes

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