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Staging: rtl8187se: Do not mess with carrier settings while scanning

Toggling the link carrier is a non sense and is the grossest locking I can
think of. Moreover, it's giving a completely inaccurate status to userspace
who could for example decide to turn the interface down on carrier off
detection.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Samuel Ortiz 15 years ago
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      drivers/staging/rtl8187se/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac_wx.c

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drivers/staging/rtl8187se/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac_wx.c

@@ -277,8 +277,6 @@ void ieee80211_wx_sync_scan_wq(struct work_struct *work)
 
 	chan = ieee->current_network.channel;
 
-	netif_carrier_off(ieee->dev);
-
 	if (ieee->data_hard_stop)
 		ieee->data_hard_stop(ieee->dev);
 
@@ -300,8 +298,6 @@ void ieee80211_wx_sync_scan_wq(struct work_struct *work)
 	if(ieee->iw_mode == IW_MODE_ADHOC || ieee->iw_mode == IW_MODE_MASTER)
 		ieee80211_start_send_beacons(ieee);
 
-	netif_carrier_on(ieee->dev);
-
 	//YJ,add,080828, In prevent of lossing ping packet during scanning
 	//ieee80211_sta_ps_send_null_frame(ieee, false);
 	//YJ,add,080828,end