Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 05:29:26 -0500
From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
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	Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: brcmsmac still woes, possible regression?
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Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 05/09/2012 11:41 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>> Any news?  If there's a patch that goes in the right direction with
>> known problems I'd still be interested in it, among other reasons
>> because it would make the bug more concrete and make it easier to
>> think about possible fixes.
>
> Well, there is the short term fix, which is already upstream and moved
> to stable. The long term fix for which Seth Forshee (Canonical) did a
> great job is reviewed over here, but it involves regulatory related code
> so it needs discussions with our compliance team and supervisor. So that
> causes some lag time.
>
> If you are using a kernel with the short term fix included please sent
> any logging information if the problem still persists.

Thanks for explaining.  That makes sense.

Is the short term fix badc4f07622f ("brcm80211: smac: resume transmit
fifo upon receiving frames", 2012-04-11)?

Thanks,
Jonathan