[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "ath9k: declare required extra tx headroom" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

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

    ath9k: declare required extra tx headroom

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt20.

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

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 6c4f89b8b9a5ab053c2d517ac1a987872f5ab9fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felix Fietkau <nbd at openwrt.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 16:59:46 +0200
Subject: ath9k: declare required extra tx headroom

commit 029cd0370241641eb70235d205aa0b90c84dce44 upstream.

ath9k inserts padding between the 802.11 header and the data area (to
align it). Since it didn't declare this extra required headroom, this
led to some nasty issues like randomly dropped packets in some setups.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd at openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo at codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/init.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/init.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/init.c
index 0246b990fe87..c67ef9331fbd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/init.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/init.c
@@ -762,6 +762,7 @@ static void ath9k_set_hw_capab(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
 	hw->max_rate_tries = 10;
 	hw->sta_data_size = sizeof(struct ath_node);
 	hw->vif_data_size = sizeof(struct ath_vif);
+	hw->extra_tx_headroom = 4;

 	hw->wiphy->available_antennas_rx = BIT(ah->caps.max_rxchains) - 1;
 	hw->wiphy->available_antennas_tx = BIT(ah->caps.max_txchains) - 1;