Re: [PATCH 3.1-stable] staging: brcm80211: fix for rate index in receive status

Greg KH
2011-11-10T15:18:16Z

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:48:34AM +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> This fix resolves an issue on 5GHz as posted on LKML:
>
> BUG: All network processes hang (brcmsmac/wpa_supplicant)
> ID: <20111018111422.GA1979@schottelius.org>

What are these tags for? I've not seen them in kernel patches before.

> Cc: stable@kernel.org

Wrong address, please use stable@vger.kernel.org now.

> Reported-by: Nico Schottelius <nico-linux-20111017@schottelius.org>
> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
> ---
> Hi Greg,
>
> This change is in the mainline brcmsmac driver, but I do not have a commit
> message to refer to as we transitioned from staging to mainline in the last
> merge window. Can you process this patch without that info?

No, I need the git commit id of the patch that fixed this in Linus's
tree, if the files are different due to the move, that's fine, but I
still need this to reference.

greg k-h