From: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>
To: "Michael Büsch" <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org, Christoph Fritz <chf.fritz@googlemail.com>,
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
b43-dev <b43-dev@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: ssb: 2.6.34.1 -> 2.6.34.2 regression
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 08:29:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikotSiDU1ZGetwB8=XJVZrn-HQYDHGm8KT1dVPF@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C5C9252.7040007@bu3sch.de>
2010/8/7 Michael Büsch <mb@bu3sch.de>:
> The SPROM changes applied to SSB in 2.6.34.2 completely broke SPROM
> extraction. This leads to broken wireless for my BCM4306 card.
> All other BCM43xx and BCM44xx most likely are affected, too.
> Symptoms should be wrong MAC addresses and broken transmission (for 43xx).
>
> The patch changed the SPEX() macro and removed the offset subtraction,
> but did not remove the actual 0x1000 offset from the SPROM defines.
> This results in random memory poking rather than proper SPROM data
> extraction.
>
> I applied the following to my kernel to get it working again. However
> this is not a proper fix. I suggest that the -stable SSB patch
> is dropped and mainline patches being applied. They seem to
> be correct (However I did not test mainline, yet).
The original patch didn't simply drop subtraction of offset, it also
modified defines in .h:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=127006884129062&w=4
It's Larry combined patch that you see in .34.2 and it indeed lacks
changes in defines. We already explained that situation, Greg will
revert it and apply correct patches instead.
--
Rafał
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-07 6:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-06 22:53 ssb: 2.6.34.1 -> 2.6.34.2 regression Michael Büsch
2010-08-06 23:56 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2010-08-07 10:44 ` Michael Büsch
2010-08-07 6:29 ` Rafał Miłecki [this message]
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