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    iwlegacy: fix IBSS mode crashes · eb85de3f
    Stanislaw Gruszka authored
    We should not switch to non-IBSS channels when working in IBSS mode,
    otherwise there are microcode errors, and after some time system
    crashes.
    
    This bug is only observable when software scan is used in IBSS mode,
    so should be considered as regression after:
    
    commit 0263aa45
    Author: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
    Date:   Tue Mar 29 11:24:21 2011 +0200
    
        iwl3945: disable hw scan by default
    
    However IBSS mode check, which this patch add again, was removed by
    
    commit b2f30e8b
    Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
    Date:   Thu Jan 21 07:32:20 2010 -0800
    
        iwlwifi: remove IBSS channel sanity check
    
    That commit claim that mac80211 will not use non-IBSS channel in IBSS
    mode, what definitely is not true. Bug probably should be fixed in
    mac80211, but that will require more work, so better to apply that patch
    temporally, and provide proper mac80211 fix latter.
    
    Resolves:
    https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34452Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarMikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi>
    Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.38.5+
    Signed-off-by: default avatarStanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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