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Subject: Re: rtlwifi: Improve handling of IPv6 packets
From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
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To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
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	Alan Fisher <acf@unixcube.org>
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Date: Tue,  3 Mar 2015 15:07:39 +0000 (UTC)
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> Routine rtl_is_special_data() is supposed to identify packets that need to
> use a low bit rate so that the probability of successful transmission is
> high. The current version has a bug that causes all IPv6 packets to be
> labelled as special, with a corresponding low rate of transmission. A
> complete fix will be quite intrusive, but until that is available, all
> IPv6 packets are identified as regular.
> 
> This patch also removes a magic number.
> 
> Reported-and-tested-by: Alan Fisher <acf@unixcube.org>
> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
> Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.18+]
> Cc: Alan Fisher <acf@unixcube.org>

Thanks, applied to wireless-drivers.git.

Kalle Valo