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On Четверг, 05-июл-2012 15:29:45 Larry Finger wrote:
> On 07/05/2012 03:24 PM, Ivan Ivanich wrote:
> > On Четверг, 05-июл-2012 15:16:00 Larry Finger wrote:
> >> Ivan,
> >> 
> >> The following patch is suggested by the code-analysis tool cppcheck as
> >> the
> >> test is always false. As it will not affect STA usage, I have no way to
> >> test the change. Could you please do so?
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >> 
> >> Larry
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Index: wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192ce/hw.c
> >> ===================================================================
> >> --- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192ce/hw.c
> >> +++ wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192ce/hw.c
> >> @@ -1097,7 +1097,7 @@ static int _rtl92ce_set_media_status(str
> >> 
> >>    	rtl_write_byte(rtlpriv, (MSR), bt_msr);
> >>    	rtlpriv->cfg->ops->led_control(hw, ledaction);
> >> 
> >> -	if ((bt_msr & 0xfc) == MSR_AP)
> >> +	if ((bt_msr & 0x03) == MSR_AP)
> >> 
> >>    		rtl_write_byte(rtlpriv, REG_BCNTCFG + 1, 0x00);
> >>    	
> >>    	else
> >>    	
> >>    		rtl_write_byte(rtlpriv, REG_BCNTCFG + 1, 0x66);
> > 
> > Yes, compiling now, for some reason it doesn't apply cleanyl so I manualy
> > changed this line.
> > And what exactly I should test?
> 
> Does it affect operation in AP mode? Before this change, the code always
> wrote 0x66 to the register. Now it seems that it will write 0 if in AP
> mode. As I have no idea what that register does, I do not know what effect
> the change will have.
> 
> Larry
At the first look all works as before, I will test a few days and then report.
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