This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled staging: vt6656: Fix false Tx excessive retries reporting. to my staging git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git in the staging-next branch. The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.) The patch will also be merged in the next major kernel release during the merge window. If you have any questions about this process, please let me know. >From 9dd631fa99dc0a0dfbd191173bf355ba30ea786a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 21:41:36 +0000 Subject: staging: vt6656: Fix false Tx excessive retries reporting. The driver reporting IEEE80211_TX_STAT_ACK is not being handled correctly. The driver should only report on TSR_TMO flag is not set indicating no transmission errors and when not IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_ACK is being requested. Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/340f1f7f-c310-dca5-476f-abc059b9cd97@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/vt6656/int.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/vt6656/int.c b/drivers/staging/vt6656/int.c index f40947955675..af215860be4c 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/vt6656/int.c +++ b/drivers/staging/vt6656/int.c @@ -99,9 +99,11 @@ static int vnt_int_report_rate(struct vnt_private *priv, u8 pkt_no, u8 tsr) info->status.rates[0].count = tx_retry; - if (!(tsr & (TSR_TMO | TSR_RETRYTMO))) { + if (!(tsr & TSR_TMO)) { info->status.rates[0].idx = idx; - info->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_STAT_ACK; + + if (!(info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_ACK)) + info->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_STAT_ACK; } ieee80211_tx_status_irqsafe(priv->hw, context->skb); -- 2.24.1