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

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Message-ID: <20111110184457.GA8010@suse.de>
Date:	Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:44:57 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Arend van Spriel <arend@...adcom.com>
Cc:	"linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.1-stable] staging: brcm80211: fix for rate index in
 receive status

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 07:37:10PM +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> 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@...ottelius.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.

Neither of those are something we normally put in changelog comments,
right?

> >> Cc: stable@...nel.org
> > 
> > Wrong address, please use stable@...r.kernel.org now.
> > 
> 
> Noted.
> 
> >> Reported-by: Nico Schottelius <nico-linux-20111017@...ottelius.org>
> >> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@...adcom.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@...adcom.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@...adcom.com>
>     Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@...adcom.com>
>     Reviewed-by: Henry Ptasinski <henryp@...adcom.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@...adcom.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

Thanks, that's what I need.  I'll queue this up for the next 3.1 kernel
after this one gets out later this week.

greg k-h
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