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Message-ID: <54EF4442.8020006@lwfinger.net> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 10:05:22 -0600 From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net> To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org> CC: linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, Stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>, Alan Fisher <acf@...xcube.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtlwifi: Improve handling of IPv6 packets On 02/26/2015 06:56 AM, Kalle Valo wrote: > Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net> writes: > >> 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@...xcube.org> >> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net> >> Cc: Stable <stable@...r.kernel.org> [3.18+] >> Cc: Alan Fisher <acf@...xcube.org> > > Should this go to 4.0? Yes. I should have indicated that in the subject. My expectation is that any patch that has a Cc for Stable should be applied as soon as possible. Larry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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