From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= Subject: Re: brcm80211 breakage.. Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:42:14 +0100 Message-ID: References: <4F0D6806.4080201@broadcom.com> <4F0DC030.6090500@lwfinger.net> <4F0E3B7E.8040005@lwfinger.net> <4F0E5E57.9060204@lwfinger.net> <4F0F3DEC.4050605@broadcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Arend van Spriel , Larry Finger , Alwin Beukers , Roland Vossen , "John W. Linville" , Network Development , "Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" To: Linus Torvalds Return-path: Received: from mail-we0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:61164 "EHLO mail-we0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755456Ab2ALWmP convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:42:15 -0500 Received: by werm1 with SMTP id m1so1794189wer.19 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:42:14 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 2012/1/12 Linus Torvalds : > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Linus Torvalds > wrote: >> >> But I'm currently also trying to work out why that macbook air no >> longer comes back from a suspend alive, and it looks like it may be >> another problem with that brcmsmac driver. The bisection is in its >> early stages yet, but it looks like it is coming in from the network >> merge, and nothing else looks relevant. > > Ugh. This is nasty to bisect, because it goes back to the pre-3.2 day= s > that didn't support graphics properly on that Macbook Air either. So > I've been having to work around not just the "wireless doesn't work", > but also the "graphics doesn't work" issue. > > But after lots of nasty bisection problems and a few false starts, it > definitely looks like the brcmsmac driver. I don't know exactly which > commit, but it's all in network drivers now, and the only network > driver on this machine is the brcmsmac one. Make sure you have commit 775ab52142b02237a54184238e922251c59a2b5c Author: Rafa=C5=82 Mi=C5=82ecki Date: Fri Dec 9 22:16:07 2011 +0100 bcma: support for suspend and resume applied. I believe this patch already has hit your tree, but maybe because of bisecting you are at some old commit without this patch. --=20 Rafa=C5=82