[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "staging: r8712u: Set device type to wlan" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    staging: r8712u: Set device 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 3.8.13.18.

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 e772dfeca778a5069d41d4637b1993b8bd90fb8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 11:22:54 -0600
Subject: staging: r8712u: Set device type to wlan

commit 3a21f00a5002b14e4aab52aef59d33ed28468a13 upstream.

The latest version of NetworkManager does not recognize the device as wireless
without this change.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_intf.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_intf.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_intf.c
index a96cd06..601b9f7 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_intf.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_intf.c
@@ -358,6 +358,10 @@ static u8 key_2char2num(u8 hch, u8 lch)
 	return (hex_to_bin(hch) << 4) | hex_to_bin(lch);
 }

+static const struct device_type wlan_type = {
+	.name = "wlan",
+};
+
 /*
  * drv_init() - a device potentially for us
  *
@@ -393,6 +397,7 @@ static int r871xu_drv_init(struct usb_interface *pusb_intf,
 	padapter->pusb_intf = pusb_intf;
 	usb_set_intfdata(pusb_intf, pnetdev);
 	SET_NETDEV_DEV(pnetdev, &pusb_intf->dev);
+	pnetdev->dev.type = &wlan_type;
 	/* step 2. */
 	padapter->dvobj_init = &r8712_usb_dvobj_init;
 	padapter->dvobj_deinit = &r8712_usb_dvobj_deinit;
--
1.8.3.2