Re: Kernel source

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

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Sven and Tim,

Attached is a one-line fix for the problem that shows up between 3.8.0-36 and 
3.8.0-37. It is just a bare patch file, but feel free to add any explanatory 
text to make it a proper commit.

I have no real understanding as to why this line of code does not cause any 
problems with later kernel versions, but it does here. In addition, I have not 
had any reports of problems with other users. That makes me suspect some kind of 
bad interaction with the user-space network control components in 12.04.

Would it be helpful for Nicolas to prepare a bug report at Ubuntu?

Larry



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Index: linux-3.8.37/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/core.c
===================================================================
--- linux-3.8.37.orig/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/core.c
+++ linux-3.8.37/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/core.c
@@ -187,7 +187,6 @@ static int rtl_op_add_interface(struct i
 					rtlpriv->cfg->maps
 					[RTL_IBSS_INT_MASKS]);
 		}
-		mac->link_state = MAC80211_LINKED;
 		break;
 	case NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC:
 		RT_TRACE(rtlpriv, COMP_MAC80211, DBG_LOUD,