The RTL8187 and RTL8187B devices can stall unless an explicit termination
packet is sent.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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John,
With this patch my RTL8187L was able to perform a major git pull for a
tree mounted on an NFS volume, and do a multi-job kernel compilation. Without
the patch, the wireless would hang. I think this is 2.6.29 material.
Larry
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Index: wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_dev.c
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--- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_dev.c
+++ wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_dev.c
@@ -281,6 +281,7 @@ static int rtl8187_tx(struct ieee80211_h
usb_fill_bulk_urb(urb, priv->udev, usb_sndbulkpipe(priv->udev, ep),
buf, skb->len, rtl8187_tx_cb, skb);
+ urb->transfer_flags |= URB_ZERO_PACKET;
usb_anchor_urb(urb, &priv->anchored);
rc = usb_submit_urb(urb, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (rc < 0) {
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