Bug#593183: broken rt2860 support after upgrade to 2.6.32-18 from -16

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 01:23:31AM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
> 
> On 27 November 2011 01:09, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Raphael Geissert wrote:
> >> I just tried with a visible AP (using the same crypto settings) and it works.
> >> So, the changes to the module appear to only break support for hidden APs.
> >
> > Thanks for finding this.  As Ben mentioned, Realtek's original
> > rt2860sta driver was abandoned in favor of rt2800pci from the rt2x00
> > project[*] (the usual risk of using a staging driver).
> 
> Indeed, the rt2800 driver works like a charm compared to the rt2860sta :)
> 
> > However, many people still use squeeze.  So I would be happy to see
> > the regression you discovered fixed.  Some questions in that vein:
> >
> >  1. Just to check, can you still reproduce the trouble with the
> >    latest squeeze kernel?
> >
> >  2. Can you bisect?  The squeeze kernel is on the "squeeze" branch
> >    of git://git.debian.org/kernel/linux-2.6.git; the usual
> >    "make silentoldconfig; make; fakeroot -u make deb-pkg" should work
> >    to build each revision one wants to test.
> 
> I currently don't have enough disk space to accommodate such a setup,
> but will at least try with a live image or something similar.
> Back when I was affected I remember checking the different changes
> made to the driver, but they were all made in one big patchset that
> was added in a single commit, IIRC.
> 
> HTH. I will anyway try to free up some space.
> 
> Cheers, and thanks for picking up such an old bug :)

Has this been tracked down or shall we go ahead and close the bug?

Cheers,
        Moritz