Bug#664767: Brcmsmac driver woes, possible regression?
Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 12:27 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> 6b1a89afbf97 brcm80211: smac: drop "40MHz intolerant" flag from HT
>> capability info
>> c261bdf8acad brcm80211: smac: indicate severe problems to Mac80211
>> 0bf1f883fd0a brcm80211: smac: removed MPC related code
[...]
>> and random reconnects Camaleón was experiencing. I think we should
>> take them all. (It's basically a backport of brcmsmac changes to
>> date, minus the switch to BCMA.)
> [...]
>
> I'm sorry but I don't agree. This would seem to leave us with a version
> of brcmsmac that's quite different from what anyone else uses. Please
> try to identify which of these are the really important changes and
> propose them for stable.
Fair enough. I think we'll need help from upstream to figure that out.
[...]
> (It may however be sensible to use the 'compat-wireless' tree as a means
> to keep wireless drivers updated in wheezy. I keep meaning to look into
> the details of this and then discuss it with the kernel and release
> teams.)
I don't think that's a good idea unless it's a separate package, since
wireless drivers get their fair share of regressions just like the
rest of the kernel and there is no equivalent of stable for driver
backports. But as a separate package that could be frequently updated
through backports.debian.org it might be nice.
Jonathan
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