This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
staging: r8712u: Set device type to wlan
to the 3.4-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-r8712u-set-device-type-to-wlan.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 3a21f00a5002b14e4aab52aef59d33ed28468a13 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 11:22:54 -0600
Subject: staging: r8712u: Set device type to wlan
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 3a21f00a5002b14e4aab52aef59d33ed28468a13 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/rtl8712/usb_intf.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_intf.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_intf.c
@@ -361,6 +361,10 @@ static u8 key_2char2num(u8 hch, u8 lch)
return (hex_to_bin(hch) << 4) | hex_to_bin(lch);
}
+static const struct device_type wlan_type = {
+ .name = "wlan",
+};
+
/*
* drv_init() - a device potentially for us
*
@@ -396,6 +400,7 @@ static int r871xu_drv_init(struct usb_in
padapter->pusb_intf = pusb_intf;
usb_set_intfdata(pusb_intf, pnetdev);
SET_NETDEV_DEV(pnetdev, &pusb_intf->dev);
+ pnetdev->dev.type = &wlan_type;
/* step 2. */
padapter->dvobj_init = &r8712_usb_dvobj_init;
padapter->dvobj_deinit = &r8712_usb_dvobj_deinit;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/b43-fix-lockdep-splat.patch
queue-3.4/staging-r8712u-set-device-type-to-wlan.patch
queue-3.4/rtlwifi-rtl8192cu-add-new-device-id.patch
queue-3.4/rtlwifi-rtl8192c-add-new-definitions-in-the-dm_common-header.patch
queue-3.4/b43-fix-the-wrong-assignment-of-status.freq-in-b43_rx.patch
queue-3.4/b43-fix-unload-oops-if-firmware-is-not-available.patch
queue-3.4/b43legacy-fix-unload-oops-if-firmware-is-not-available.patch
queue-3.4/rtlwifi-rtl8192cu-fix-some-code-in-rf-handling.patch
queue-3.4/rtlwifi-set-the-link-state.patch
queue-3.4/rtlwifi-rtl8192c-add-routines-to-save-restore-power-index-registers.patch
queue-3.4/rtlwifi-rtl8192cu-update-the-power-index-registers.patch
queue-3.4/rtlwifi-update-beacon-statistics-for-usb-driver.patch
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