Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtlwifi: Improve handling of IPv6 packets

From: Larry Finger <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 10:05:22 -0600

On 02/26/2015 06:56 AM, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Larry Finger <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Routine rtl_is_special_data() is supposed to identify packets that need to
>> use a low bit rate so that the probability of successful transmission is
>> high. The current version has a bug that causes all IPv6 packets to be
>> labelled as special, with a corresponding low rate of transmission. A
>> complete fix will be quite intrusive, but until that is available, all
>> IPv6 packets are identified as regular.
>>
>> This patch also removes a magic number.
>>
>> Reported-and-tested-by: Alan Fisher <[email-masked]>
>> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: Stable <[email-masked]> [3.18+]
>> Cc: Alan Fisher <[email-masked]>
>
> Should this go to 4.0?

Yes. I should have indicated that in the subject.

My expectation is that any patch that has a Cc for Stable should be applied as 
soon as possible.

Larry