netdev - Re: brcm80211 breakage..

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Date:	Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:42:14 +0100
From:	Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Arend van Spriel <arend@...adcom.com>,
	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>
Subject: Re: brcm80211 breakage..

2012/1/12 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> 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 days
> 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: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>
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.

-- 
Rafał
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