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

Arend van Spriel
2011-11-10T18:37:31Z

On 11/10/2011 04:17 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> 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.
>

The first line was the email Subject as posted on LKML. The second is
the message id.

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

Noted.

>> 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.
>

Here it is:

commit 5a84d6ad4c9306afb467a600a4c6d7b50da49440
Author: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Date: Tue Aug 23 14:14:00 2011 +0200

staging: brcm80211: fill in proper rx rate in mac80211 rx status

The brcmsmac driver supports different rates on 5GHz but this is not
taken into account when providing the rate index in the receive
status information passed to mac80211.

Reviewed-by: Roland Vossen <rvossen@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Henry Ptasinski <henryp@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Gr. AvS