[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.34.2-1

Ionuț Bîru ibiru at archlinux.org
Wed Aug 4 02:06:33 EDT 2010


On 08/04/2010 05:34 AM, Dan McGee wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Dan McGee<dpmcgee at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 2:39 AM, Tobias Powalowski<t.powa at gmx.de>  wrote:
>>> Latest kernel is in testing,
>>> please signoff for both arches.
>>>
>>> I already have
>>> .35 prepared, a fast signoff would be great.
>>
>> This completely broke wireless for me on my laptop. b43 driver, i686
>> architecture. The wlan0 device would show up, but then you couldn't do
>> much of anything with it.
>>
>> 03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
>>         Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 365e
>
> Interesting, because the driver hasn't changed at all since the base
> 2.6.34 was released:
>
> dmcgee at galway ~/projects/linux-2.6 (master)
> $ (find -name b43*) | xargs git diff v2.6.34..v2.6.34.2 | cat
> <no output here>
>
> The diff on drivers/net/wireless didn't look odd either; specific
> (other) drivers changed but nothing that sticks out as affecting b43.
>
> -Dan


note to mention that with 2.6.35 kernel broadcom is working. i guess 
they did a partial merge from 2.6.35 to 2.6.34

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