Re: How to disable beacon filtering in iwlwifi in 3.13 and 3.14

[Emmanuel Grumbach <egrumbach@gmail.com>]

On 05/19/2014 10:41 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 01:40:34PM +0300, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I need to disable a feature on 3.13 and 3.14. But I don't have any
>> patch upstream that I can point to as the patch that needs to be
>> backported.
>> We have a feature that is buggy in 3.13 and 3.14. We refactored (and
>> fixed) this feature in 3.15 but the refactor is really not stable
>> material, so basically, I can't backport the fix to 3.13 / 3.14. A
>> user reported that disabling the feature solved (part of) his issues:
>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72601.
>> OTOH, I don't have any patch in linux.git that could be backported to
>> do what I want in 3.13 / 3.14 - i.e. disable the feature.
>> What is the right process here? I understand that this isn't covered
>> by the "stable rules". So what should I do here?
> 
> Get the maintainer's approval to apply this patch and I can queue it up.

Ok - thanks. It might be worthwhile to add this "exception path" in the Documentation :)

> 
>>
>> FYI: this is the patch:
>>
>> commit 31e56634bea6ab23817faa069663af3103da0609
>> Author: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
>> Date:   Sun May 18 19:05:23 2014 +0300
>>
>>     iwlwifi: mvm: disable beacon filtering
>>
>>     This feature has been causing trouble - disable it for now.
>>     Fixes are available, but they are too big to be backported.
>>
>>     https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72601
>>
>>     Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
> 
> Also, sending it in a format that I can apply it in would be nice :)
> 

:) Done.