[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "mac80211: exclude AP_VLAN interfaces from tx power calculation" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    mac80211: exclude AP_VLAN interfaces from tx power calculation

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.24.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 08b653b8487e6b3651c4318ec2d6d83f5aae4cd2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felix Fietkau <nbd at openwrt.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:06:48 +0200
Subject: mac80211: exclude AP_VLAN interfaces from tx power calculation

commit 764152ff66f4a8be1f9d7981e542ffdaa5bd7aff upstream.

Their power value is initialized to zero. This patch fixes an issue
where the configured power drops to the minimum value when AP_VLAN
interfaces are created/removed.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd at openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/mac80211/main.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/main.c b/net/mac80211/main.c
index e93d39d..6079959 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/main.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/main.c
@@ -157,6 +157,8 @@ static u32 ieee80211_hw_conf_chan(struct ieee80211_local *local)
 	list_for_each_entry_rcu(sdata, &local->interfaces, list) {
 		if (!rcu_access_pointer(sdata->vif.chanctx_conf))
 			continue;
+		if (sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP_VLAN)
+			continue;
 		power = min(power, sdata->vif.bss_conf.txpower);
 	}
 	rcu_read_unlock();
--
1.9.1