Subject: Re: [33-stable regression ssb/broadcom]

From: Thomas Backlund <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 23:41:23 +0300

Thomas Backlund skrev 13.9.2010 23:34:
> John W. Linville skrev 13.9.2010 22:36:
>> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:23:29PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>>> From: Thomas Backlund<[email-masked]>
>>> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:38:26 +0300
>>>
>>>> In Mandriva 2010.1 we noticed that 2.6.33.7 broke ssb/Broadcom lan for
>>>> several users...
>>>>
>>>> Issue is tracked at:
>>>> https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=60968
>>>>
>>>> Reverting the commit restores a working lan.
>>>>
>>>> The offending commit is:
>>>
>>> Please always CC: netdev on networking reports, otherwise you are
>>> very unlikely to get any experts looking into your issue.
>>
>> IIRC, there was a bad patch that got sent for the 2.6.33.y series.
>> I thought it had been reverted or fixed already?
>>
>
> Nope.
>
> It got added in 2.6.33.7
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.33.y.git;a=commit;h=6fb037c2ed8378c7ab0c1e00536ba6b2a866503e
>

After checking some more...

I see the revert of the broken patch was done in 2.6.34.3 and a set of 
ssb patches replacing it...

but it didn't happend for 2.6.33.y

--
Thomas