When reconfiguring an interface due to a previous hardware restart, mac80211 will currently include the new IBSS flag on non-IBSS interfaces which may confuse drivers. Instead of doing the ~0 trick, simply spell out which things are going to be reconfigured. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> --- include/net/mac80211.h | 2 ++ net/mac80211/util.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++----- 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- wireless-testing.orig/include/net/mac80211.h 2010-05-01 08:47:54.000000000 +0200 +++ wireless-testing/include/net/mac80211.h 2010-05-05 09:41:46.000000000 +0200 @@ -160,6 +160,8 @@ enum ieee80211_bss_change { BSS_CHANGED_BEACON_ENABLED = 1<<9, BSS_CHANGED_CQM = 1<<10, BSS_CHANGED_IBSS = 1<<11, + + /* when adding here, make sure to change ieee80211_reconfig */ }; /** --- wireless-testing.orig/net/mac80211/util.c 2010-04-09 11:46:46.000000000 +0200 +++ wireless-testing/net/mac80211/util.c 2010-05-05 09:41:46.000000000 +0200 @@ -1160,18 +1160,33 @@ int ieee80211_reconfig(struct ieee80211_ /* Finally also reconfigure all the BSS information */ list_for_each_entry(sdata, &local->interfaces, list) { - u32 changed = ~0; + u32 changed; + if (!ieee80211_sdata_running(sdata)) continue; + + /* common change flags for all interface types */ + changed = BSS_CHANGED_ERP_CTS_PROT | + BSS_CHANGED_ERP_PREAMBLE | + BSS_CHANGED_ERP_SLOT | + BSS_CHANGED_HT | + BSS_CHANGED_BASIC_RATES | + BSS_CHANGED_BEACON_INT | + BSS_CHANGED_BSSID | + BSS_CHANGED_CQM; + switch (sdata->vif.type) { case NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION: - /* disable beacon change bits */ - changed &= ~(BSS_CHANGED_BEACON | - BSS_CHANGED_BEACON_ENABLED); - /* fall through */ + changed |= BSS_CHANGED_ASSOC; + ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify(sdata, changed); + break; case NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC: + changed |= BSS_CHANGED_IBSS; + /* fall through */ case NL80211_IFTYPE_AP: case NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT: + changed |= BSS_CHANGED_BEACON | + BSS_CHANGED_BEACON_ENABLED; ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify(sdata, changed); break; case NL80211_IFTYPE_WDS: -- 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