Patch "staging: vt6656: use free_netdev instead of kfree" has been added to the 3.9-stable tree

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

    staging: vt6656: use free_netdev instead of kfree

to the 3.9-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-free_netdev-instead-of-kfree.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From 0a438d5b381e2bdfd5e02d653bf46fcc878356e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hema Prathaban <hemaklnce@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 22:39:47 +0530
Subject: staging: vt6656: use free_netdev instead of kfree

From: Hema Prathaban <hemaklnce@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 0a438d5b381e2bdfd5e02d653bf46fcc878356e3 upstream.

use free_netdev() instead of kfree(pDevice->apdev)

Signed-off-by: Hema Prathaban <hemaklnce@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 drivers/staging/vt6656/hostap.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/staging/vt6656/hostap.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/vt6656/hostap.c
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ static int hostap_disable_hostapd(struct
             DBG_PRT(MSG_LEVEL_DEBUG, KERN_INFO "%s: Netdevice %s unregistered\n",
 		       pDevice->dev->name, pDevice->apdev->name);
 	}
-	kfree(pDevice->apdev);
+	free_netdev(pDevice->apdev);
 	pDevice->apdev = NULL;
     pDevice->bEnable8021x = false;
     pDevice->bEnableHostWEP = false;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hemaklnce@xxxxxxxxx are

queue-3.9/staging-vt6656-use-free_netdev-instead-of-kfree.patch
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