wdev->wext.connect.channel = chan;
- /* SSID is not set, we just want to switch channel */
+ /*
+ * SSID is not set, we just want to switch monitor channel,
+ * this is really just backward compatibility, if the SSID
+ * is set then we use the channel to select the BSS to use
+ * to connect to instead. If we were connected on another
+ * channel we disconnected above and reconnect below.
+ */
if (chan && !wdev->wext.connect.ssid_len) {
- err = cfg80211_set_freq(rdev, wdev, freq, NL80211_CHAN_NO_HT);
+ err = cfg80211_set_monitor_channel(rdev, freq, NL80211_CHAN_NO_HT);
goto out;
}