[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "ath9k: fix ready time of the multicast buffer queue" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    ath9k: fix ready time of the multicast buffer queue

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 3.8.13.22.

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 0aa129c5bcafdad84ac992d35831a23e47178500 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felix Fietkau <nbd at openwrt.org>
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 11:02:54 +0100
Subject: ath9k: fix ready time of the multicast buffer queue

commit 3b3e0efb5c72c4fc940af50b33626b8a78a907dc upstream.

qi->tqi_readyTime is written directly to registers that expect
microseconds as unit instead of TU.
When setting the CABQ ready time, cur_conf->beacon_interval is in TU, so
convert it to microseconds before passing it to ath9k_hw.

This should hopefully fix some Tx DMA issues with buffered multicast
frames in AP mode.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd at openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
index d134faa..846bff1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
@@ -1465,7 +1465,7 @@ int ath_cabq_update(struct ath_softc *sc)
 	else if (sc->config.cabqReadytime > ATH9K_READY_TIME_HI_BOUND)
 		sc->config.cabqReadytime = ATH9K_READY_TIME_HI_BOUND;

-	qi.tqi_readyTime = (cur_conf->beacon_interval *
+	qi.tqi_readyTime = (TU_TO_USEC(cur_conf->beacon_interval) *
 			    sc->config.cabqReadytime) / 100;
 	ath_txq_update(sc, qnum, &qi);

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1.9.1