rtlwifi: Improve handling of IPv6 packets

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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>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>

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Larry Finger 2015-02-24 09:23:01 -06:00 • committed by Sasha Levin

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drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/base.c

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