Commit 8fd77aec authored Nov 18, 2013 by Larry Finger Committed by John W. Linville Dec 05, 2013

rtlwifi: rtl8192c: Prevent reconnect attempts if not connected



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@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

parent ac0ef813

drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/base.c

+2 −1

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		@@ -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;