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

[Ionuț Bîru]

On 08/04/2010 02:23 PM, Dan McGee wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Ionuț Bîru<ibiru at archlinux.org>  wrote:
>> 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
>>
>> it has ssb changes and b43 relies on it
>
> Thanks, Ionuț. So much for a stable release...I should probably let
> them know upstream, no? Is this something to send to linux-stable?
>
> -Dan


it was reported and we have a patch available

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20353

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Ionuț