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diff --git a/package/mac80211/patches/510-b43-poison-rx-buffers.patch b/package/mac80211/patches/510-b43-poison-rx-buffers.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index c1c6d79bd..000000000
--- a/package/mac80211/patches/510-b43-poison-rx-buffers.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,103 +0,0 @@
-This patch adds poisoning and sanity checking to the RX DMA buffers.
-This is used for protection against buggy hardware/firmware that raises
-RX interrupts without doing an actual DMA transfer.
-
-This mechanism protects against rare "bad packets" (due to uninitialized skb data)
-and rare kernel crashes due to uninitialized RX headers.
-
-The poison is selected to not match on valid frames and to be cheap for checking.
-
-The poison check mechanism _might_ trigger incorrectly, if we are voluntarily
-receiving frames with bad PLCP headers. However, this is nonfatal, because the
-chance of such a match is basically zero and in case it happens it just results
-in dropping the packet.
-Bad-PLCP RX defaults to off, and you should leave it off unless you want to listen
-to the latest news broadcasted by your microwave oven.
-
-This patch also moves the initialization of the RX-header "length" field in front of
-the mapping of the DMA buffer. The CPU should not touch the buffer after we mapped it.
-
-Cc: stable@kernel.org
-Reported-by: Francesco Gringoli <francesco.gringoli@ing.unibs.it>
-Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
-
----
-
---- a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/dma.c
-+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/dma.c
-@@ -555,11 +555,32 @@ address_error:
- return 1;
- }
-
-+static bool b43_rx_buffer_is_poisoned(struct b43_dmaring *ring, struct sk_buff *skb)
-+{
-+ unsigned char *f = skb->data + ring->frameoffset;
-+
-+ return ((f[0] & f[1] & f[2] & f[3] & f[4] & f[5] & f[6] & f[7]) == 0xFF);
-+}
-+
-+static void b43_poison_rx_buffer(struct b43_dmaring *ring, struct sk_buff *skb)
-+{
-+ struct b43_rxhdr_fw4 *rxhdr;
-+ unsigned char *frame;
-+
-+ /* This poisons the RX buffer to detect DMA failures. */
-+
-+ rxhdr = (struct b43_rxhdr_fw4 *)(skb->data);
-+ rxhdr->frame_len = 0;
-+
-+ B43_WARN_ON(ring->rx_buffersize < ring->frameoffset + sizeof(struct b43_plcp_hdr6) + 2);
-+ frame = skb->data + ring->frameoffset;
-+ memset(frame, 0xFF, sizeof(struct b43_plcp_hdr6) + 2 /* padding */);
-+}
-+
- static int setup_rx_descbuffer(struct b43_dmaring *ring,
- struct b43_dmadesc_generic *desc,
- struct b43_dmadesc_meta *meta, gfp_t gfp_flags)
- {
-- struct b43_rxhdr_fw4 *rxhdr;
- dma_addr_t dmaaddr;
- struct sk_buff *skb;
-
-@@ -568,6 +589,7 @@ static int setup_rx_descbuffer(struct b4
- skb = __dev_alloc_skb(ring->rx_buffersize, gfp_flags);
- if (unlikely(!skb))
- return -ENOMEM;
-+ b43_poison_rx_buffer(ring, skb);
- dmaaddr = map_descbuffer(ring, skb->data, ring->rx_buffersize, 0);
- if (b43_dma_mapping_error(ring, dmaaddr, ring->rx_buffersize, 0)) {
- /* ugh. try to realloc in zone_dma */
-@@ -578,6 +600,7 @@ static int setup_rx_descbuffer(struct b4
- skb = __dev_alloc_skb(ring->rx_buffersize, gfp_flags);
- if (unlikely(!skb))
- return -ENOMEM;
-+ b43_poison_rx_buffer(ring, skb);
- dmaaddr = map_descbuffer(ring, skb->data,
- ring->rx_buffersize, 0);
- if (b43_dma_mapping_error(ring, dmaaddr, ring->rx_buffersize, 0)) {
-@@ -592,9 +615,6 @@ static int setup_rx_descbuffer(struct b4
- ring->ops->fill_descriptor(ring, desc, dmaaddr,
- ring->rx_buffersize, 0, 0, 0);
-
-- rxhdr = (struct b43_rxhdr_fw4 *)(skb->data);
-- rxhdr->frame_len = 0;
--
- return 0;
- }
-
-@@ -1489,6 +1509,15 @@ static void dma_rx(struct b43_dmaring *r
- goto drop;
- }
- }
-+ if (unlikely(b43_rx_buffer_is_poisoned(ring, skb))) {
-+ /* Something went wrong with the DMA.
-+ * The device did not touch the buffer and did not overwrite the poison. */
-+ b43dbg(ring->dev->wl, "DMA RX: Dropping poisoned buffer.\n");
-+ /* recycle the descriptor buffer. */
-+ sync_descbuffer_for_device(ring, meta->dmaaddr,
-+ ring->rx_buffersize);
-+ goto drop;
-+ }
- if (unlikely(len > ring->rx_buffersize)) {
- /* The data did not fit into one descriptor buffer
- * and is split over multiple buffers.