netdev - Re: rtlwifi: Improve handling of IPv6 packets

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Date:	Tue,  3 Mar 2015 15:07:39 +0000 (UTC)
From:	Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
To:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
Cc:	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alan Fisher <acf@...xcube.org>
Subject: Re: rtlwifi: Improve handling of IPv6 packets


> 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>

Thanks, applied to wireless-drivers.git.

Kalle Valo
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