Patch "staging: vt6656: use ieee80211_tx_info to select packet type." has been added to the 4.0-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

staging: vt6656: use ieee80211_tx_info to select packet type.

to the 4.0-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:

     staging-vt6656-use-ieee80211_tx_info-to-select-packet-type.patch

and it can be found in the queue-4.0 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Malcolm Priestley <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2015 20:49:10 +0100
Subject: staging: vt6656: use ieee80211_tx_info to select packet type.

From: Malcolm Priestley <[email protected]>

commit b23f14302e86628625ac3982a6d23e35888755f2 upstream.

Information for packet type is in ieee80211_tx_info

band IEEE80211_BAND_5GHZ for PK_TYPE_11A.

IEEE80211_TX_RC_USE_CTS_PROTECT via tx_rate flags selects PK_TYPE_11GB

This ensures that the packet is always the right type.

---
 drivers/staging/vt6656/rxtx.c |   14 +++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

@@ -805,10 +805,18 @@ int vnt_tx_packet(struct vnt_private *pr
 		vnt_schedule_command(priv, WLAN_CMD_SETPOWER);
 	}
 
-	if (current_rate > RATE_11M)
-		pkt_type = priv->packet_type;
-	else
+	if (current_rate > RATE_11M) {
+		if (info->band == IEEE80211_BAND_5GHZ) {
+			pkt_type = PK_TYPE_11A;
+		} else {
+			if (tx_rate->flags & IEEE80211_TX_RC_USE_CTS_PROTECT)
+				pkt_type = PK_TYPE_11GB;
+			else
+				pkt_type = PK_TYPE_11GA;
+		}
+	} else {
 		pkt_type = PK_TYPE_11B;
+	}
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->lock, flags);
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.0/staging-vt6655-vnt_tx_packet-correct-tx-order-of-owned_by_nic.patch queue-4.0/staging-vt6655-device_free_tx_buf-use-only-ieee80211_tx_status_irqsafe.patch queue-4.0/staging-vt6656-use-ieee80211_tx_info-to-select-packet-type.patch queue-4.0/staging-vt6655-implement-ieee80211_tx_stat_noack_transmitted.patch queue-4.0/staging-vt6655-fix-80211-control-and-management-status-reporting.patch queue-4.0/staging-vt6655-lock-macvwritebssidaddress.patch