The patch was sent upstream with the explanation that it should be applied to kernel 4.3 and the appropriate stable versions. Despite my language and efforts, it was applied to wireless-drivers-next, not wireless-drivers. As such, it will not be applied to mainline until the post 4.3 merge. At that point, it will be applied to stable. This patch was applied to wireless-drivers-next as commit 54328e64047a54b8fc2362c2e1f0fa16c90f739f.