Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] ath10k: fixes

["Luis R. Rodriguez" <rodrigue@qca.qualcomm.com>]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 07:42:39AM +0200, Michal Kazior wrote:
> On 26 August 2013 22:20, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 1:53 AM, Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com> wrote:
> >>   ath10k: fix issues on non-preemptible systems
> >
> > This patch looks like a stable candidate fix. Please annotate as such
> > if you confirm. Also, I reviewed other ath10k "fixes" and I see no
> > practice of propagating any patches to stable yet. Can you please
> > start doing that? If there were patches which are already merged
> > upstream that should be propagated to stable then they can be
> > submitted as stable candidate patches.
> 
> Good point.
> 
> If this patch is to be propagated to stable the patch(set) needs some
> adjustments to avoid conflicts. Right now the patch touches a place
> that was introduced with "ath10k: move htt rx processing to worker" so
> the offending patch hunk should be moved to that patch.
> 
> Actually the "ath10k: make the workqueue multithreaded" could also be
> a candidate for stable as it fixes AP beaconing during heavy TX
> traffic. I should've mentioned that in the commit log.
> 
> I'll resend an updated patchset later today.

That one doesn't seem like a stable fix, it does quite a big change.

  Luis