cfg80211: add sanity check for retry limit in wext-compat
Fixed bug in wext-compat of cfg80211 subsystem of 802.11 wireless networking in the Linux Kernel. Avoid sending the wrong retry limit values to the driver. The fix is accepted by the maintainer of wireless Linux "Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>". The patch is now available from Kernel version 3.14. The communication can be found in the following links -http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/117841
http://markmail.org/message/wve3jpto23gjvbrg
From now onward the fix can be found in the Linux Kernel tree. You can find the solve by searching google as "Ujjal Roy wext-compat".
The patch is now updated to the Kernel 3.14 tree and can be found on the link below -
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless.git/commit/?id=f5aa0d21dd5ada040ff42b4d40357285e4ace441
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