This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
staging: r8188eu: Set device type to wlan
to the 3.12-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-r8188eu-set-device-type-to-wlan.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 0d1206be229697f897f00822bc142e66da731417 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 22:15:05 -0500
Subject: staging: r8188eu: Set device type to wlan
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 0d1206be229697f897f00822bc142e66da731417 upstream.
The latest version of NetworkManager does not recognize the device as wireless
without this change.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/os_intfs.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/os_intfs.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/os_intfs.c
@@ -707,6 +707,10 @@ int rtw_init_netdev_name(struct net_devi
return 0;
}
+static const struct device_type wlan_type = {
+ .name = "wlan",
+};
+
struct net_device *rtw_init_netdev(struct adapter *old_padapter)
{
struct adapter *padapter;
@@ -722,6 +726,7 @@ struct net_device *rtw_init_netdev(struc
if (!pnetdev)
return NULL;
+ pnetdev->dev.type = &wlan_type;
padapter = rtw_netdev_priv(pnetdev);
padapter->pnetdev = pnetdev;
DBG_88E("register rtw_netdev_ops to netdev_ops\n");
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.12/staging-r8188eu-set-device-type-to-wlan.patch
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