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Re: [stable] ssb: 2.6.34.1 -> 2.6.34.2 regression

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On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 12:53:06AM +0200, Michael Büsch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The SPROM changes applied to SSB in 2.6.34.2 completely broke SPROM
> extraction. This leads to broken wireless for my BCM4306 card.
> All other BCM43xx and BCM44xx most likely are affected, too.
> Symptoms should be wrong MAC addresses and broken transmission (for 43xx).
> 
> The patch changed the SPEX() macro and removed the offset subtraction,
> but did not remove the actual 0x1000 offset from the SPROM defines.
> This results in random memory poking rather than proper SPROM data
> extraction.
> 
> I applied the following to my kernel to get it working again. However
> this is not a proper fix. I suggest that the -stable SSB patch
> is dropped and mainline patches being applied. They seem to
> be correct (However I did not test mainline, yet).

That's already done, can you please test the 2.6.34.3-rc1 kernel that
was announced a few hours ago?  I should have fixed all of the issues
there, if not, please let me know.

thanks,
greg k-h
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