On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 3:59 PM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:00:32 +0000 > >> On Fri, 2013-01-11 at 10:19 +0100, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote: >>> Since: >>> >>> commit 2c60db037034d27f8c636403355d52872da92f81 >>> Author: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> >>> Date: Sun Sep 16 09:17:26 2012 +0000 >>> >>> net: provide a default dev->ethtool_ops >>> >>> wireless core does not correctly assign ethtool_ops. >>> >>> After alloc_netdev*() call, some cfg80211 drivers provide they own >>> ethtool_ops, but some do not. For them, wireless core provide generic >>> cfg80211_ethtool_ops, which is assigned in NETDEV_REGISTER notify call: >>> >>> if (!dev->ethtool_ops) >>> dev->ethtool_ops = &cfg80211_ethtool_ops; >>> >>> But after Eric's commit, dev->ethtool_ops is no longer NULL (on cfg80211 >>> drivers without custom ethtool_ops), but points to &default_ethtool_ops. >>> >>> In order to fix the problem, provide function which will overwrite >>> default_ethtool_ops and use it by wireless core. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx> >> [...] >> >> Acked-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Applied. Stanislaw, I see Eric's patch went in on v3.7-rc1 as such I suspect this needs to be submitted as a stable fix for v3.7.5. Its already on v3.8-rc4. mcgrof@frijol ~/linux-stable (git::linux-3.7.y)$ git describe --contains 2c60db037034d27f8c636403355d52872da92f81 v3.7-rc1~145^2~142 Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
