netdev - Re: brcm80211 breakage..

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Message-ID: <4F0F4451.6080602@broadcom.com>
Date:	Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:36:33 +0100
From:	"Arend van Spriel" <arend@...adcom.com>
To:	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	"Larry Finger" <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
	"Alwin Beukers" <alwin@...adcom.com>,
	"Roland Vossen" <rvossen@...adcom.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	"Network Development" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" <frankyl@...adcom.com>,
	Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>
Subject: Re: brcm80211 breakage..

On 01/12/2012 09:27 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 2012/1/12 Arend van Spriel <arend@...adcom.com>:
>>
>> That output look fine. The patch looks fine although you can use the new
>> do_crc_check() function in otp_read_pci as well.
> 
> I'll leave that as a separate cleanup for somebody who has the
> hardware to test it. I committed the 16-bit read fix for now.

Ah. yet another hint :-p

> 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.
> 
> Has suspend/resume been tested exhaustively with that driver?
> 
>                      Linus
> 

BCMA introduced suspend/resume after the BCMA changes in brcmsmac so
there may still be issues.

Gr. AvS

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