[3.5.y.z extended stable] Patch "rtlwifi: Set the link state" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

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

    rtlwifi: Set the link state

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 c7fe01c3abf4d08572d8f92bc0d38f18cce8a4e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 11:11:28 -0600
Subject: rtlwifi: Set the link state

commit 619ce76f8bb850b57032501a39f26aa6c6731c70 upstream.

The present code fails to set the linked state when an interface is
added.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/core.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/core.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/core.c
index 60bf47d..e70333b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/core.c
@@ -185,6 +185,7 @@ 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,
--
1.8.3.2