Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 19:28:08 -0500
From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
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	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>,
	Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>,
	Roland Vossen <rvossen@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: [3.2.y] Re: Brcmsmac driver woes, possible regression?
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Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 07/16/2012 11:31 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>> With all the above patches applied on top of 3.2.21, Camaleón quickly
>> gets the reconnects and gnome-shell segfaults if she does not supply
>> the password to network-manager in time[1].  That means the patch that
>> prevents trouble is presumably one of the four listed below.
>>
>>>>   137dabed34a1 brcm80211: smac: remove smatch warnings from brcmsmac code
>>>>   2b0a53d51b5f brcm80211: smac: only print block-ack timeout message at
>>>>                trace level
>>>>   6b8da423315b brcm80211: smac: do not use US as fallback regulatory hint
>>>>   94a2ca311cf4 brcm80211: smac: only provide valid regulatory hint
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jonathan
>>
>> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=295;bug=664767
>
> Thanks, Jonathan
>
> I guess the behaviour improved due to the last two patches listed above,
> but I also suspect that it is only an improvement and the root cause
> still exists.

I think you're right.  Camaleón tried with all patches except the last
one and still got the unwanted reconnects.

Would 6b8da423315b and 94a2ca311cf4 be good candidates for stable@ in
the meantime (for symptom relief and saner regulatory code) until the
root cause is found?

Thanks,
Jonathan