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

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    rtlwifi: Set the link state

to the linux-3.8.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 00266a19e17aea0d5d42d7c2f42ba51490c0b5f8 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: Kamal Mostafa <kamal 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 77e4a58..1eb562a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/core.c
@@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ 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