Re: pull request: wireless 2014-02-17

[David Miller]

From: "John W. Linville" <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:39:21 -0500

> Please pull this batch of fixes intended for the 3.14 stream...
> 
> For the iwlwifi one, Emmanuel says:
> 
> "As explicitly written in the commit message, we prefer to disable Tx
> AMPDU on NICs supported by iwldvm. This feature gives a big boost in
> Tx performance, but the firmware is buggy and we can't rely on it.
> Our hope is that most of the users out there want wifi to surf on
> the web which means that they care more for Rx traffic than for Tx.
> People who want to enable it can do so with the help of a module
> parameter."
> 
> On top of that...
> 
> Dan Carpenter fixes a typo/thinko in ath5k.
> 
> Olivier Langlois fixes a couple of rtlwifi issues, one which leaves
> IRQs disabled too long (causing a variety of problems elsewhere),
> and one which fixes an incorrect return code when failing to enable
> the NIC.
> 
> Russell King fixes a NULL pointer dereference in hostap.
> 
> Stanislaw Gruszka fixes a DMA coherence issue in the rtl8187 driver.
> 
> Please let me know if there are problems!

Pulled, thanks a lot John.
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