Re: [v3.8, v3.9] [Regression] brcmsmac: move PHY functions

From: John W. Linville
Date: Mon Apr 01 2013 - 10:42:41 EST


On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 03:52:39PM -0400, Joseph Salisbury wrote:
> Hi Piotr,
>
> A bug was opened against the Ubuntu kernel[0]. After a kernel
> bisect, it was found that reverting the following commit resolved
> this bug:
>
> commit b83576341664957978e125f5f5db2f15496980b1
> Author: Piotr Haber <phaber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed Nov 28 21:44:09 2012 +0100
>
> brcmsmac: move PHY functions
>
> The regression was introduced as of v3.8-rc1. The regression still
> exists in v3.9-rc4.
>
> I see that you are the author of this patch, so I wanted to run this
> by you. I was thinking of requesting a revert for v3.9, but I
> wanted to get your feedback first.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe
>
> [0] http://pad.lv/1131914

I recently reverted b6fc28a1, which is the follow-on to that patch.
The revert is _not_ in 3.9-rc5.

Could you try reverting that patch instead? Does that fix the issue
for you?

John
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