This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled rtlwifi: rtl8192c: Prevent reconnect attempts if not connected to the 3.13-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: rtlwifi-rtl8192c-prevent-reconnect-attempts-if-not-connected.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.13 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 8fd77aec1a9d6f4328fc0244f21932114e066df3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 11:11:25 -0600 Subject: rtlwifi: rtl8192c: Prevent reconnect attempts if not connected From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 8fd77aec1a9d6f4328fc0244f21932114e066df3 upstream. This driver has a watchdog timer that attempts to reconnect when beacon frames are not seen for 6 seconds. This patch disables that reconnect whenever the device has never been connected. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/base.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/base.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/base.c @@ -1437,7 +1437,8 @@ void rtl_watchdog_wq_callback(void *data /* if we can't recv beacon for 6s, we should * reconnect this AP */ - if (rtlpriv->link_info.roam_times >= 3) { + if ((rtlpriv->link_info.roam_times >= 3) && + !is_zero_ether_addr(rtlpriv->mac80211.bssid)) { RT_TRACE(rtlpriv, COMP_ERR, DBG_EMERG, "AP off, try to reconnect now\n"); rtlpriv->link_info.roam_times = 0; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.13/b43-fix-lockdep-splat.patch queue-3.13/staging-r8712u-set-device-type-to-wlan.patch queue-3.13/rtlwifi-redo-register-save-locations.patch queue-3.13/rtlwifi-rtl8192cu-add-new-device-id.patch queue-3.13/rtlwifi-rtl8192c-add-new-definitions-in-the-dm_common-header.patch queue-3.13/rtlwifi-rtl8192c-update-dynamic-gain-calculations.patch queue-3.13/b43-fix-the-wrong-assignment-of-status.freq-in-b43_rx.patch queue-3.13/b43-fix-unload-oops-if-firmware-is-not-available.patch queue-3.13/rtlwifi-rtl8192cu-add-new-firmware.patch queue-3.13/b43legacy-fix-unload-oops-if-firmware-is-not-available.patch queue-3.13/rtlwifi-rtl8192cu-fix-some-code-in-rf-handling.patch queue-3.13/rtlwifi-set-the-link-state.patch queue-3.13/rtlwifi-increase-the-rx-queue-length-for-usb-drivers.patch queue-3.13/rtlwifi-rtl8192c-add-routines-to-save-restore-power-index-registers.patch queue-3.13/rtlwifi-rtl8192c-prevent-reconnect-attempts-if-not-connected.patch queue-3.13/rtlwifi-rtl8188ee-fix-typo-in-code.patch queue-3.13/rtlwifi-rtl8192cu-update-the-power-index-registers.patch queue-3.13/rtlwifi-add-missing-code-to-pwdb-statics-routine.patch queue-3.13/rtlwifi-update-beacon-statistics-for-usb-driver.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html