[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "rtlwifi: rtl8192ce: Set fw_ready flag" has been added to staging queue

[Larry Finger]

On 01/07/2015 04:31 AM, Luis Henriques wrote:
> This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
>
>      rtlwifi: rtl8192ce: Set fw_ready flag
>
> to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree
> which can be found at:
>
>   http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue
>
> This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt4.
>
> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
> reply to this email.
>
> For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
>
> Thanks.
> -Luis

Luis,

This patch was not intended for stable kernels older than 3.18. It will not 
cause any regressions; however, it solves no problems for 3.16.

Larry

>
> ------
>
>>From 4b4eb045536dffa37492179574dc3139907bd64e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 14:38:29 -0600
> Subject: rtlwifi: rtl8192ce: Set fw_ready flag
>
> commit 9a1dce3a059111a7289680f4b8c0ec4f8736b6ee upstream.
>
> The setting of this flag was missed in previous modifications.
>
> 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/rtl8192ce/hw.c | 2 ++
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192ce/hw.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192ce/hw.c
> index cdecb0fd4d8e..9a6442aa01cd 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192ce/hw.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192ce/hw.c
> @@ -953,6 +953,7 @@ int rtl92ce_hw_init(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
>   	local_save_flags(flags);
>   	local_irq_enable();
>
> +	rtlhal->fw_ready = false;
>   	rtlpriv->intf_ops->disable_aspm(hw);
>   	rtstatus = _rtl92ce_init_mac(hw);
>   	if (!rtstatus) {
> @@ -969,6 +970,7 @@ int rtl92ce_hw_init(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
>   		goto exit;
>   	}
>
> +	rtlhal->fw_ready = true;
>   	rtlhal->last_hmeboxnum = 0;
>   	rtl92c_phy_mac_config(hw);
>   	/* because last function modify RCR, so we update
> --
> 2.1.4
>
>