Re: [PATCH V2 v3.7] brcmsmac: handle packet drop on enqueuing correctly

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 07:54:54PM +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 12/03/2012 07:39 PM, John W. Linville wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 04:24:31PM +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
> >> Hi Arend,
> >>
> >> "Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com> writes:
> >>
> >>> What is keeping you from picking up this patch? Anything I should do?
> >>> This V2 removed the no-op changes in ampdu.c that Seth indicated so...
> >>
> >> Most likely it's too late. Dave already told that that John's previous
> >> pull request might not make it to 3.7.
> > 
> > Yes, that.  Also, given the merge difficulties this creates and the
> > fact that Seth's patch is already queued for 3.8, maybe you should
> > consider sending this for the 3.7 stable series when it opens?
> > 
> > John
> > 
> 
> That was my plan when it would not get in for 3.7.0. I wanted it to go
> to stable anyway as the fix is also needed for 3.6.x stable. Just wanted
> to get it upstream fixed first.
> 
> For 3.8 the fix has been reworked on top of Seth patches and is in
> wireless-next (c4dea35e brcmsmac: handle packet drop during transmit
> correctly). Should I refer to that commit when submitting to stable
> (although it is a slightly different patch).

Yes, I think the stable team will appreciate that.

Thanks,

John
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