Re: [v3.8, v3.9] [Regression] brcmsmac: move PHY functions

[Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@canonical.com>]

On 04/01/2013 10:42 AM, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 03:52:39PM -0400, Joseph Salisbury wrote:
>> Hi Piotr,
>>
>> A bug was opened against the Ubuntu kernel[0].  After a kernel
>> bisect, it was found that reverting the following commit resolved
>> this bug:
>>
>> commit b83576341664957978e125f5f5db2f15496980b1
>> Author: Piotr Haber <phaber@broadcom.com>
>> Date:   Wed Nov 28 21:44:09 2012 +0100
>>
>>      brcmsmac: move PHY functions
>>
>> The regression was introduced as of v3.8-rc1.  The regression still
>> exists in v3.9-rc4.
>>
>> I see that you are the author of this patch, so I wanted to run this
>> by you.  I was thinking of requesting a revert for v3.9, but I
>> wanted to get your feedback first.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Joe
>>
>> [0] http://pad.lv/1131914
> I recently reverted b6fc28a1, which is the follow-on to that patch.
> The revert is _not_ in 3.9-rc5.
>
> Could you try reverting that patch instead?  Does that fix the issue
> for you?
>
> John

Hi John,

Thanks for the response.

Yes, reverting commit b6fc28a1 does resolve this bug.  That is the 
appropriate fix for this issue.  Thanks for the assistance.

Thanks,

Joe