From 0900f3657664d9046e6723825fd32b244eef2b6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Lockwood <lockwood@android.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:24:07 -0400
Subject: wifi: Keep the WLAN network interface up whenever wifi is enabled.

We now only bring it down briefly and bring it back up again when
we want to reset the interface.

Signed-off-by: Mike Lockwood <lockwood@android.com>
---
 wifi/java/android/net/wifi/WifiStateTracker.java | 19 +++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

(limited to 'wifi/java/android')

diff --git a/wifi/java/android/net/wifi/WifiStateTracker.java b/wifi/java/android/net/wifi/WifiStateTracker.java
index 0e2eb38..a2cdcc1 100644
--- a/wifi/java/android/net/wifi/WifiStateTracker.java
+++ b/wifi/java/android/net/wifi/WifiStateTracker.java
@@ -378,6 +378,14 @@ public class WifiStateTracker extends NetworkStateTracker {
     }
 
     /**
+     * Return the name of our WLAN network interface.
+     * @return the name of our interface.
+     */
+    public String getInterfaceName() {
+        return mInterfaceName;
+    }
+
+    /**
      * Return the system properties name associated with the tcp buffer sizes
      * for this network.
      */
@@ -784,7 +792,7 @@ public class WifiStateTracker extends NetworkStateTracker {
                     WifiNative.closeSupplicantConnection();
                 }
                 if (died) {
-                    resetInterface();
+                    resetInterface(false);
                 }
                 // When supplicant dies, kill the DHCP thread
                 if (mDhcpTarget != null) {
@@ -1195,7 +1203,7 @@ public class WifiStateTracker extends NetworkStateTracker {
             cancelDisconnect();
         }
         mDisconnectExpected = false;
-        resetInterface();
+        resetInterface(true);
         setDetailedState(newState);
         sendNetworkStateChangeBroadcast(mLastBssid);
         mWifiInfo.setBSSID(null);
@@ -1208,7 +1216,7 @@ public class WifiStateTracker extends NetworkStateTracker {
      * Resets the Wi-Fi interface by clearing any state, resetting any sockets
      * using the interface, stopping DHCP, and disabling the interface.
      */
-    public void resetInterface() {
+    public void resetInterface(boolean reenable) {
         mHaveIpAddress = false;
         mObtainingIpAddress = false;
         mWifiInfo.setIpAddress(0);
@@ -1229,6 +1237,9 @@ public class WifiStateTracker extends NetworkStateTracker {
         }
         
         NetworkUtils.disableInterface(mInterfaceName);
+        if (reenable) {
+            NetworkUtils.enableInterface(mInterfaceName);
+        }
     }
 
     /**
@@ -1872,7 +1883,7 @@ public class WifiStateTracker extends NetworkStateTracker {
                         oDns2 != mDhcpInfo.dns2));
 
             if (changed) {
-                resetInterface();
+                resetInterface(true);
                 configureInterface();
                 if (mUseStaticIp) {
                     mTarget.sendEmptyMessage(EVENT_CONFIGURATION_CHANGED);
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