netdev - Re: [33-stable regression ssb/broadcom]

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Message-ID: <4C8E8C73.60306@mandriva.org>
Date:	Mon, 13 Sep 2010 23:41:23 +0300
From:	Thomas Backlund <tmb@...driva.org>
To:	"stable@...nel.org" <stable@...nel.org>
CC:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"gregkh@...e.de" <gregkh@...e.de>,
	"Larry.Finger@...inger.net" <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [33-stable regression ssb/broadcom]

Thomas Backlund skrev 13.9.2010 23:34:
> John W. Linville skrev 13.9.2010 22:36:
>> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:23:29PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> IIRC, there was a bad patch that got sent for the 2.6.33.y series.
>> I thought it had been reverted or fixed already?
>>
>
> Nope.
>
> It got added in 2.6.33.7
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.33.y.git;a=commit;h=6fb037c2ed8378c7ab0c1e00536ba6b2a866503e
>

After checking some more...

I see the revert of the broken patch was done in 2.6.34.3 and a set of 
ssb patches replacing it...

but it didn't happend for 2.6.33.y

--
Thomas
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