Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:38:56 +0300 | From | "Alexey Zaytsev" <> | Subject | Re: bcm43xx regression in 2.6.24 (with patch) |
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:20 PM, John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 11:20:58PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > > On Saturday 23 February 2008 22:32:46 Alexey Zaytsev wrote: > > > > > And you knew that the new driver did no work with the bcm4311 > > > chips, which is the sad thing. > > > > That is not true. It doesn't work with exactly _one_ revision > > of the bcm4311 card. And that is already fixed in 2.6.25. > > I'd like to have that in .24-stable, too, but I guess it's too big. > > It changes some parts of the DMA engine code. > > Which patch is it? Is it this one? Or is there another one that touches 4311? > > commit 013978b688d2a27af3ab55ca739e8c8ac7254870 > Author: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> > Date: Mon Nov 26 10:29:47 2007 -0600 > > b43: Changes to enable BCM4311 rev 02 with wireless core revision 13 > > The BCM94311MCG rev 02 chip has an 802.11 core with revision 13 and > has not been supported until now. The changes include the following: > > <snip> > > If so, perhaps we should just consider applying this to -stable? >
I see a few problems here:
This commit seems to depend on some commits prior to it, as it touches drivers/net/wireless/b43/wa.c which is absent in 2.6.24.3. When I get home, I'll test if it still works if you ignore wa.c
The patch may be too complex for -stable. I think there was a hard line count limit, like no more than 100 lines. I'm not sure if this still stands.
This does not fix the bcm43xx driver.
> I really do wish everyone would tone down their rhetoric on this > issue... > > John > -- > John W. Linville > linville@tuxdriver.com >
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