linux-kernel - Re: [33-stable regression ssb/broadcom]

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Message-Id: <20100913.122329.39186333.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:23:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	tmb@...driva.org
Cc:	stable@...nel.org, gregkh@...e.de, Larry.Finger@...inger.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [33-stable regression ssb/broadcom]

From: Thomas Backlund <tmb@...driva.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@...glemail.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 ---
> 
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> Thomas
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