From patchwork Wed May 14 14:49:17 2014 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Joseph Salisbury X-Patchwork-Id: 348805 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from huckleberry.canonical.com (huckleberry.canonical.com [91.189.94.19]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEEF3140082; Thu, 15 May 2014 00:49:33 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=huckleberry.canonical.com) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1WkaUs-0000Ff-MA; Wed, 14 May 2014 14:49:30 +0000 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1WkaUi-0000Cs-Eq for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Wed, 14 May 2014 14:49:20 +0000 Received: from 66-189-38-134.dhcp.oxfr.ma.charter.com ([66.189.38.134] helo=salisbury) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WkaUi-0002Xn-B2 for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Wed, 14 May 2014 14:49:20 +0000 Received: by salisbury (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E4E10780276; Wed, 14 May 2014 10:49:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Joseph Salisbury To: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: [lts-backport-quantal][lts-backport-raring][SRU][PATCH 1/1] rtlwifi: Remove setting of link_state to MAC80211_LINKED Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 10:49:17 -0400 Message-Id: <1c4a308126f3cd29e0f23083a2401f6c64d58790.1400009226.git.joseph.salisbury@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.1 In-Reply-To: References: In-Reply-To: References: X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com From: Larry Finger BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289429 Fix from Larry Finger for a problem that shows up between 3.8.0-36 and 3.8.0-37. There is no real understanding as to why this line of code does not cause any problems with later kernel versions, but it does here. In addition, we have not had any reports of problems with other users. That suggests some kind of bad interaction with the user-space network control components in 12.04. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger Signed-off-by: Joseph Salisbury --- drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/core.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/core.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/core.c index 1eb562a..77e4a58 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/core.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/core.c @@ -187,7 +187,6 @@ static int rtl_op_add_interface(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, rtlpriv->cfg->maps [RTL_IBSS_INT_MASKS]); } - mac->link_state = MAC80211_LINKED; break; case NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC: RT_TRACE(rtlpriv, COMP_MAC80211, DBG_LOUD,