From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>, Alan Fisher <acf@unixcube.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtlwifi: Improve handling of IPv6 packets
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 10:05:22 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54EF4442.8020006@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zj80de63.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com>
On 02/26/2015 06:56 AM, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> writes:
>
>> Routine rtl_is_special_data() is supposed to identify packets that need to
>> use a low bit rate so that the probability of successful transmission is
>> high. The current version has a bug that causes all IPv6 packets to be
>> labelled as special, with a corresponding low rate of transmission. A
>> complete fix will be quite intrusive, but until that is available, all
>> IPv6 packets are identified as regular.
>>
>> This patch also removes a magic number.
>>
>> Reported-and-tested-by: Alan Fisher <acf@unixcube.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
>> Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.18+]
>> Cc: Alan Fisher <acf@unixcube.org>
>
> Should this go to 4.0?
Yes. I should have indicated that in the subject.
My expectation is that any patch that has a Cc for Stable should be applied as
soon as possible.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-26 16:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-24 15:23 [PATCH] rtlwifi: Improve handling of IPv6 packets Larry Finger
2015-02-26 12:56 ` Kalle Valo
2015-02-26 16:05 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2015-03-03 15:07 ` Kalle Valo
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