Subject: [PATCH 1/1] mac80211: reorder channel and freq reporting in wext scan report
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general
Date: 2008-05-22 22:36:36 GMT (1 year, 6 weeks, 2 hours and 25 minutes ago)
This patch switch order of channel and freq (SIOCGIWFREQ) reports in scan results in order to overcome wpa_supplicant inability to handle channel numbers in 5.2Ghz band. Wext reporting channel number is ambiguous as channels 7-12 (802.11j) exist on both bands. Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@...> Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@...> --- net/mac80211/mlme.c | 9 ++++----- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c index 7cfd12e..c7eca4d 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c +++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c @@ -4095,18 +4095,17 @@ ieee80211_sta_scan_result(struct net_device *dev, memset(&iwe, 0, sizeof(iwe)); iwe.cmd = SIOCGIWFREQ; - iwe.u.freq.m = bss->freq; - iwe.u.freq.e = 6; + iwe.u.freq.m = ieee80211_frequency_to_channel(bss->freq); + iwe.u.freq.e = 0; current_ev = iwe_stream_add_event(current_ev, end_buf, &iwe, IW_EV_FREQ_LEN); memset(&iwe, 0, sizeof(iwe)); iwe.cmd = SIOCGIWFREQ; - iwe.u.freq.m = ieee80211_frequency_to_channel(bss->freq); - iwe.u.freq.e = 0; + iwe.u.freq.m = bss->freq; + iwe.u.freq.e = 6; current_ev = iwe_stream_add_event(current_ev, end_buf, &iwe, IW_EV_FREQ_LEN);