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

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According to [tomk][1], this was fixed as of last night's kernel
(3.15.2).

  [1]: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1430902#p1430902

On Sun, Jun 29, 2014, at 01:23 PM, Hong Shick Pak wrote:
> 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


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