From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
Alan Fisher <acf@unixcube.org>
Subject: Re: rtlwifi: Improve handling of IPv6 packets
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 15:07:39 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150303150739.BBC7C14162A@smtp.codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1424791381-31863-1-git-send-email-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
> 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>
Thanks, applied to wireless-drivers.git.
Kalle Valo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-03 15:07 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
2015-03-03 15:07 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
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