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

[Dan McGee]

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Ionuț Bîru <ibiru at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 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

Awesome, good to see. It might be a pain in the ass but this is going
to get reported again and again if we don't 1) build 2.6.34.3 when it
comes out, hopefully soon or 2) Rebuild 2.6.34.2 with this patch.
Loosing networking really sucks the big one.

To Thomas: they are gong to have to given that this better end up in
the next stable tree for that kernel.

-Dan