Return-path: Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.233]:55147 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751357AbXLKBOG (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:14:06 -0500 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id c49so1544496wra for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:14:05 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: (sfid-20071211_011411_488598_981042AB) Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:14:05 -0800 From: "Brennan Ashton" To: "Michael Buesch" Subject: Re: b43 regression Cc: "John Linville" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de In-Reply-To: <200712101136.48669.mb@bu3sch.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <200712101136.48669.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Dec 10, 2007 2:36 AM, Michael Buesch wrote: > I have identified another regression introduced by > commit f04b3787bbce4567e28069a9ec97dcd804626ac7. > > On my device it shows up as broken transmission after > a suspend/resume cycle. The workaround for it is to boot > a known good driver (in my case the vendor driver in OSX) > and then reboot (without turning the machine off) into the > broken driver. > > It seems like we unintentionally removed some significant > initialization step in that patch. I could not identify it, yet. > The patch I sent yesterday did fix two other bugs, but not this one. > > I am trying to find the reason for this. > If someone wants to help searching, the best way would be to look > at that patch I mentioned above and compare the stuff that it > removes to the stuff that it adds. There must be some tiny line > that it removes but does not re-add it at another place. > Four eyes see more than two. > > I have no idea how this bug could be related to the few bugreports > in the redhat bugzilla. Though, one could test that by trying a > kernel that does not include the patch. > > Sorry for the inconvenience. > > -- > Greetings Michael. > _______________________________________________ > Bcm43xx-dev mailing list > Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev > RE: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=412861 I downloaded the source for 2.6.23.8-63.fc8.src.rpm the package that things started to stop working at, and could not find any part of this patch applied, so at least for that bug it is something else. -- Brennan Ashton Bellingham, Washington "The box said, 'Requires Windows XP or better'. So I installed Linux"