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[3.8.y.z,extended,stable] Patch "prism54: set netdev type to "wlan"" has been added to staging queue

Message ID 1386371310-32097-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com
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Kamal Mostafa Dec. 6, 2013, 11:08 p.m. UTC 
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    prism54: set netdev type to "wlan"

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.14.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From e390296211ac2d9fdc673e19d23da041c69af997 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 13:39:44 -0600
Subject: prism54: set netdev type to "wlan"

commit 8e3ffa471091c560deb6738ed9ab7445b7a5fd04 upstream.

Userspace uses the netdev devtype for stuff like device naming and type
detection.  Be nice and set it.  Remove the pointless #if/#endif around
SET_NETDEV_DEV too.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_dev.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_dev.c b/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_dev.c
index 5970ff6..d498b02 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_dev.c
@@ -811,6 +811,10 @@  static const struct net_device_ops islpci_netdev_ops = {
 	.ndo_validate_addr	= eth_validate_addr,
 };

+static struct device_type wlan_type = {
+	.name	= "wlan",
+};
+
 struct net_device *
 islpci_setup(struct pci_dev *pdev)
 {
@@ -821,9 +825,8 @@  islpci_setup(struct pci_dev *pdev)
 		return ndev;

 	pci_set_drvdata(pdev, ndev);
-#if defined(SET_NETDEV_DEV)
 	SET_NETDEV_DEV(ndev, &pdev->dev);
-#endif
+	SET_NETDEV_DEVTYPE(ndev, &wlan_type);

 	/* setup the structure members */
 	ndev->base_addr = pci_resource_start(pdev, 0);