On Mon, 2018-05-14 at 08:48 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > ------------------ > > From: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > commit 2f38c3c01de945234d23dd163e3528ccb413066d upstream. > > Chipset from QCA99X0 onwards (QCA99X0, QCA9984, QCA4019 & future) > rx_hdr_status is not padded to align in 4-byte boundary. Define a > new hw_params field to handle different alignment behaviour between > different hw. This patch fixes improper retrieval of rfc1042 header > with QCA4019. This patch along with "ath10k: Properly remove padding > from the start of rx payload" will fix traffic failure in ethernet > decap mode for QCA4019. > > Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Sriram R <srirrama@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [...] I'm curious as to why this backport doesn't include the change to ath10k_htt_rx_h_find_rfc1042(). I understand that the addition of the new field is a dependency for the following patch, but shouldn't the fix included in the upstream commit also be applied to 4.4? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Software Developer Codethink Ltd https://www.codethink.co.uk/ Dale House, 35 Dale Street Manchester, M1 2HF, United Kingdom
