This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
staging: r8712u: Fix regression in signal level after commit c6dc001
to the 3.2-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-fix-regression-in-signal-level-after-commit-c6dc001.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.2 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From da3e6ec2f443ac00aa623c5921e3521f5f38efe4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Larry Finger <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:08:36 -0600
Subject: staging: r8712u: Fix regression in signal level after commit c6dc001
From: Larry Finger <[email protected]>
commit da3e6ec2f443ac00aa623c5921e3521f5f38efe4 upstream.
In commit c6dc001 "staging: r8712u: Merging Realtek's latest (v2.6.6).
Various fixes", the returned qual.qual member of the iw_statistics
struct was changed. For strong signals, this change made no difference;
however for medium and weak signals it results in a low signal that
shows considerable fluctuation, When using wicd for a medium-strength
AP, the value reported in the status line is reduced from 100% to 60% by
this bug.
This problem is reported in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42826.
Reported-and-tested-by: Robert Crawford <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c | 8 +-------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
@@ -2380,13 +2380,7 @@ static struct iw_statistics *r871x_get_w
tmp_qual = padapter->recvpriv.signal;
tmp_noise = padapter->recvpriv.noise;
piwstats->qual.level = tmp_level;
- /*piwstats->qual.qual = tmp_qual;
- * The NetworkManager of Fedora 10, 13 will use the link
- * quality for its display.
- * So, use the fw_rssi on link quality variable because
- * fw_rssi will be updated per 2 seconds.
- */
- piwstats->qual.qual = tmp_level;
+ piwstats->qual.qual = tmp_qual;
piwstats->qual.noise = tmp_noise;
}
piwstats->qual.updated = IW_QUAL_ALL_UPDATED;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected]
are
queue-3.2/staging-r8712u-fix-regression-introduced-by-commit-a5ee652.patch
queue-3.2/staging-r8712u-add-missing-initialization-and-remove-configuration-parameter-config_r8712_ap.patch
queue-3.2/staging-r8712u-fix-regression-in-signal-level-after-commit-c6dc001.patch
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