netdev - Re: [3.5 regression / mcs7830 / bisected] bridge constantly toggeling between disabled and forwarding

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Message-ID: <20120927173905.GC21025@kroah.com>
Date:	Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:39:05 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Michael Leun <lkml20120218@...ton.leun.net>
Cc:	linux@...nbow-software.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [3.5 regression / mcs7830 / bisected] bridge constantly
 toggeling between disabled and forwarding

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 01:36:34AM +0200, Michael Leun wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 09:15:04 +0200
> Michael Leun <lkml20120218@...ton.leun.net> wrote:
> 
> [see issue description below]
> 
> Bisecting yielded
> 
> b1ff4f96fd1c63890d78d8939c6e0f2b44ce3113 is the first bad commit
> commit b1ff4f96fd1c63890d78d8939c6e0f2b44ce3113
> Author: Ondrej Zary <linux@...nbow-software.org>
> Date:   Fri Jun 1 10:29:08 2012 +0000
> 
>     mcs7830: Implement link state detection
> 
>     Add .status callback that detects link state changes.
>     Tested with MCS7832CV-AA chip (9710:7830, identified as rev.C by the driver).
>     Fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28532
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zary <linux@...nbow-software.org>
>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> 
> :040000 040000 5480780cb5e75c57122a621fc3bab0108c16be27 d97efd9cc0a465dff76bcd3a3c547f718f2a5345 M    drivers
> 
> 
> Reverting that from 3.5 makes the issue go away.

Did this ever get resolved in 3.6-rc7 or any older kernel?  I can't
revert the patch from 3.5.y unless it's also fixed in Linus's tree.

thanks,

greg k-h
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