From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: tmb@mandriva.org
Cc: stable@kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de, Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [33-stable regression ssb/broadcom]
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:23:29 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100913.122329.39186333.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C8E6192.2010003@mandriva.org>
From: Thomas Backlund <tmb@mandriva.org>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:38:26 +0300
> In Mandriva 2010.1 we noticed that 2.6.33.7 broke ssb/Broadcom lan for
> several users...
>
> Issue is tracked at:
> https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=60968
>
> Reverting the commit restores a working lan.
>
> The offending commit is:
Please always CC: netdev on networking reports, otherwise you are
very unlikely to get any experts looking into your issue.
> --- cut ---
> From 6fb037c2ed8378c7ab0c1e00536ba6b2a866503e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Christoph Fritz <chf.fritz@googlemail.com>
> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:26:15 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH] ssb: Handle Netbook devices where the SPROM address
> is changed
>
> For some Netbook computers with Broadcom BCM4312 wireless interfaces,
> the SPROM has been moved to a new location. When the ssb driver tries
> to
> read the old location, the systems hangs when trying to read a
> non-existent location. Such freezes are particularly bad as they do
> not
> log the failure.
>
> This patch is modified from commit
> da1fdb02d9200ff28b6f3a380d21930335fe5429 with some pieces from other
> mainline changes so that it can be applied to stable 2.6.34.Y.
> --- cut ---
>
> --
> Thomas
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next parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-13 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <4C8E6192.2010003@mandriva.org>
2010-09-13 19:23 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-09-13 19:36 ` [33-stable regression ssb/broadcom] John W. Linville
2010-09-13 20:34 ` Thomas Backlund
2010-09-13 20:41 ` Thomas Backlund
2010-09-13 21:01 ` Greg KH
2010-09-15 9:54 ` Thomas Backlund
2010-09-15 10:02 ` Krzysztof Olędzki
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