Re: bcm43xx regression in 2.6.24 (with patch)

From: Alexey Zaytsev
Date: Sat Feb 23 2008 - 07:17:30 EST


On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Pekka J Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Alexey,
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > So does reverting commit 753f492093da7a40141bfe083073400f518f4c68
> > > ("[B44]: port to native ssb support") fix the regression?
> > >
>
>
> On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Alexey Zaytsev wrote:
> > Compiling it right now.
> >
> > I'm sure it fixes the problem, but I don't feel like we should revert
> > it. I can't
> > be sure it won't cause any other problems, and anyway, this does not look
> > right a solution. Any other driver (rightfully) requiring the SSB_HOST would
> > then also break the bcm43xx driver.
> >
> > I'll send an simplified patch in a few minutes.
>
> The point here is that it's Michael's patch and I don't want to start
> blaming anyone until you've verified it actually broke your setup. And if
> the problem was actually caused by that patch, Michael needs to either ACK
> your patch or fix it himself.

Yes, the problem was caused by this patch. With it reverted, I've got
both ethernet
and wifi working.

>
> Pekka
>
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