This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled iwlwifi: mvm: always use mac color zero to the 3.14-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: iwlwifi-mvm-always-use-mac-color-zero.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 5523d11cc46393a1e61b7ef4a0b2d4e7ed9521e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 12:48:20 +0200 Subject: iwlwifi: mvm: always use mac color zero From: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx> commit 5523d11cc46393a1e61b7ef4a0b2d4e7ed9521e4 upstream. We don't really need to use different mac colors when adding mac contexts, because they're not used anywhere. In fact, the firmware doesn't accept 255 as a valid color, so we get into a SYSASSERT 0x3401 when we reach that. Remove the color increment to use always zero and avoid reaching 255. Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c @@ -410,9 +410,6 @@ static void iwl_mvm_cleanup_iterator(voi mvmvif->uploaded = false; mvmvif->ap_sta_id = IWL_MVM_STATION_COUNT; - /* does this make sense at all? */ - mvmvif->color++; - spin_lock_bh(&mvm->time_event_lock); iwl_mvm_te_clear_data(mvm, &mvmvif->time_event_data); spin_unlock_bh(&mvm->time_event_lock); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/iwlwifi-mvm-always-use-mac-color-zero.patch queue-3.14/iwlwifi-mvm-fix-failure-path-when-power_update-fails-in-add_interface.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html