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

[Hong Shick Pak]

On 06/29, Peter Mattern wrote:
> 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
> 

The b43 driver is not officially supported by Arch.

Hong