[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "staging: vt6656: use free_netdev instead of kfree" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    staging: vt6656: use free_netdev instead of kfree

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.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-3.5.y-queue

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

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From f9379a1c32eb220781c0d354411316dd7bfdc45f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hema Prathaban <hemaklnce at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 22:39:47 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] staging: vt6656: use free_netdev instead of kfree

commit 0a438d5b381e2bdfd5e02d653bf46fcc878356e3 upstream.

use free_netdev() instead of kfree(pDevice->apdev)

Signed-off-by: Hema Prathaban <hemaklnce at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
[ luis: adjust context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/staging/vt6656/hostap.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/vt6656/hostap.c b/drivers/staging/vt6656/hostap.c
index 51b5adf..df8ea25 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/vt6656/hostap.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/vt6656/hostap.c
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ static int hostap_disable_hostapd(PSDevice pDevice, int rtnl_locked)
             DBG_PRT(MSG_LEVEL_DEBUG, KERN_INFO "%s: Netdevice %s unregistered\n",
 		       pDevice->dev->name, pDevice->apdev->name);
 	}
-	kfree(pDevice->apdev);
+	free_netdev(pDevice->apdev);
 	pDevice->apdev = NULL;
     pDevice->bEnable8021x = FALSE;
     pDevice->bEnableHostWEP = FALSE;
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1.8.1.2