Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8712: Fix IEEE80211_ADDBA_PARAM_BUF_SIZE_MASK

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 10:12:47PM +0100, Pascal Terjan wrote:
> The value in shared headers was fixed 9 years ago in commit 8d661f1e462d
> ("ieee80211: correct IEEE80211_ADDBA_PARAM_BUF_SIZE_MASK macro") and
> while looking at using shared headers for other duplicated constants
> I noticed this driver uses the old value.
> 
> The macros are also defined twice in this file so I am deleting the
> second definition.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pascal Terjan <pterjan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8712/wifi.h | 9 +--------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/wifi.h b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/wifi.h
> index be731f1a2209..91b65731fcaa 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/wifi.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/wifi.h
> @@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ static inline unsigned char *get_hdr_bssid(unsigned char *pframe)
>  /* block-ack parameters */
>  #define IEEE80211_ADDBA_PARAM_POLICY_MASK 0x0002
>  #define IEEE80211_ADDBA_PARAM_TID_MASK 0x003C
> -#define IEEE80211_ADDBA_PARAM_BUF_SIZE_MASK 0xFFA0
> +#define IEEE80211_ADDBA_PARAM_BUF_SIZE_MASK 0xFFC0
>  #define IEEE80211_DELBA_PARAM_TID_MASK 0xF000
>  #define IEEE80211_DELBA_PARAM_INITIATOR_MASK 0x0800

I'll take this patch, but why can't this code be all deleted such that
the real in-kernel defines are used instead of these duplicated ones?

thanks,

greg k-h