When not associated with an AP, wifi device drivers should respond to the
SIOCGIWESSID ioctl with a zero-length string for the SSID, which is the
behavior expected by dhcpcd.
Currently, this driver returns an error code (-1) from the ioctl call,
which causes dhcpcd to assume that the device is not a wireless interface
and therefore it fails to work correctly with it thereafter.
This problem was reported and tested at
https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8188eu/issues/234.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger
---
v2 - completed missing subject
drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c | 14 --
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
index c0664dc80bf2..446310775e90 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
@@ -1395,19 +1395,13 @@ static int rtw_wx_get_essid(struct net_device *dev,
if ((check_fwstate(pmlmepriv, _FW_LINKED)) ||
(check_fwstate(pmlmepriv, WIFI_ADHOC_MASTER_STATE))) {
len = pcur_bss->Ssid.SsidLength;
-
- wrqu->essid.length = len;
-
memcpy(extra, pcur_bss->Ssid.Ssid, len);
-
- wrqu->essid.flags = 1;
} else {
- ret = -1;
- goto exit;
+ len = 0;
+ *extra = 0;
}
-
-exit:
-
+ wrqu->essid.length = len;
+ wrqu->essid.flags = 1;
return ret;
}
--
2.13.6
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