On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 11:21:38AM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 02/28/2015 04:29 PM, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> >The patch below does not apply to the 3.19-stable tree.
> >If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> >tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> >id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
> >
> >thanks,
> >
> >greg k-h
> >
> >------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
> >
>
> Attached is a patch that should apply to 3.19-stable. The original patch was
> commit d0311314d00298f83aa5450a1d4a92889e7cc2ea in Linus's tree.
>
>
> Larry
>
> >From d0311314d00298f83aa5450a1d4a92889e7cc2ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Troy Tan <troy_tan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 11:15:17 -0600
> Subject: [PATCH] rtlwifi: rtl8192ee: Fix handling of new style descriptors
>
> The hardware and firmware for the RTL8192EE utilize a FIFO list of
> descriptors. There were some problems with the initial implementation.
> The worst of these failed to detect that the FIFO was becoming full,
> which led to the device needing to be power cycled. As this condition
> is not relevant to most of the devices supported by rtlwifi, a callback
> routine was added to detect this situation. This patch implements the
> necessary changes in the pci handler, and the linkage into the appropriate
> rtl8192ee routine.
>
> Signed-off-by: Troy Tan <troy_tan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [V3.18]
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
It breaks the build:
drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192ee/trx.c:710:6: error: conflicting
types for ‘rtl92ee_get_available_desc’
void rtl92ee_get_available_desc(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, u8 q_idx)
^
:(
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