ipw2x00: change default policy for auto-associate

Do not attempt association until directed to do so by a user space
application. In particular, this avoids race conditions with
NetworkManager association state.

Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.c
index 13633d8274a3..6ec6de2960ee 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.c
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ static int channel = 0;
 static int mode = 0;
 
 static u32 ipw_debug_level;
-static int associate = 1;
+static int associate;
 static int auto_create = 1;
 static int led = 0;
 static int disable = 0;
@@ -11913,7 +11913,7 @@ module_param(disable, int, 0444);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(disable, "manually disable the radio (default 0 [radio on])");
 
 module_param(associate, int, 0444);
-MODULE_PARM_DESC(associate, "auto associate when scanning (default on)");
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(associate, "auto associate when scanning (default off)");
 
 module_param(auto_create, int, 0444);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(auto_create, "auto create adhoc network (default on)");