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Subject: Re: [3.2.y] Re: Brcmsmac driver woes, possible regression?
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On 07/16/2012 11:31 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> 
> With all the above patches applied on top of 3.2.21, Camaleón quickly
> gets the reconnects and gnome-shell segfaults if she does not supply
> the password to network-manager in time[1].  That means the patch that
> prevents trouble is presumably one of the four listed below.
> 
>>>   137dabed34a1 brcm80211: smac: remove smatch warnings from brcmsmac code
>>>   2b0a53d51b5f brcm80211: smac: only print block-ack timeout message at
>>>                trace level
>>>   6b8da423315b brcm80211: smac: do not use US as fallback regulatory hint
>>>   94a2ca311cf4 brcm80211: smac: only provide valid regulatory hint
> 
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
> 
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=295;bug=664767
> 

Thanks, Jonathan

I guess the behaviour improved due to the last two patches listed above,
but I also suspect that it is only an improvement and the root cause
still exists.

Gr. AvS