[arch-general] Kernel: include patch for b43?

Peter Mattern matternp at arcor.de
Sun Jun 29 16:14:13 EDT 2014


Hello.

As of Kernel 3.15 a long standing bug in b43 affecting the way it 
handles rather recent firmware started to become manifest in failure of 
the driver, see e. g. [0,1].
A patch is available [2] but hasn't made it into 3.15.2.

A version of package linux I recompiled applying the patch works 
flawlessly, imho other workarounds like sticking with 3.14 or using 
older firmware are less reasonable.

So I'd like to ask whether there are any chances to get this patch into 
the linux package.
Attaching a file that can be used in prepare() the usual way (patch -p1 
-i "${srcdir}/...").

Regards,

Peter Mattern

[0] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/b43-dev/2014-June/003471.html
[1] http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=183114
[2] 
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=2fc68eb122c7ea6cd5be1fe7d6650c0beb2f4f40



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