[stable] ssb: 2.6.34.1 -> 2.6.34.2 regression

["Michael Büsch" <mb@bu3sch.de>]

On 08/07/2010 01:56 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 12:53:06AM +0200, Michael B?sch wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 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).
>
> That's already done, can you please test the 2.6.34.3-rc1 kernel that
> was announced a few hours ago?  I should have fixed all of the issues
> there, if not, please let me know.

That one works. Thanks.

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Greetings Michael.