Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix single queue drivers

[Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>]

On 05/14/2012 12:56 PM, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:38:16PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
>> On 05/07/2012 10:45 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
>>> From: Johannes Berg<johannes.berg@intel.com>
>>>
>>> My queue management rework broke drivers that don't
>>> have multiple AC queues and register a single queue
>>> only, causing a warning:
>>>
>>> WARNING: at net/mac80211/iface.c:162 ieee80211_check_queues
>>>
>>> This was due to filling the queues wrongly and then
>>> noticing the error when checking later.
>>>
>>> Reported-and-Tested-by: Larry Finger<Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
>>> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg<johannes.berg@intel.com>
>>
>> John,
>>
>> I know you have been busy and that Linus is restricting the patches
>> to be added after 3.4-rc7; however, this one really needs to get
>> into 3.4. If it does not make it, every wireless device with only
>> one hardware queue will break.
>>
>> Larry
>
> Actually, it doesn't seem to apply in 3.4.  The original commit that
> causes the problem (3a25a8c8) seems to only exist in wireless-next.
>
> Is there some other version of this patch to apply for 3.4?

I got confused about that one. Sorry for the noise.

The one that does need to be in 3.4 is "[PATCH] rtlwifi: fix for race condition 
when firmware is cached". The original commit (b0302ab) is in mainline, but this 
fix is not.

Larry