On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 01:36:34AM +0200, Michael Leun wrote:

On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 09:15:04 +0200
Michael Leun [off-list ref] wrote:

[see issue description below]

Bisecting yielded

b1ff4f96fd1c63890d78d8939c6e0f2b44ce3113 is the first bad commit
commit b1ff4f96fd1c63890d78d8939c6e0f2b44ce3113
Author: Ondrej Zary [off-list ref]
Date:   Fri Jun 1 10:29:08 2012 +0000

    mcs7830: Implement link state detection

    Add .status callback that detects link state changes.
    Tested with MCS7832CV-AA chip (9710:7830, identified as rev.C by the driver).
    Fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28532

    Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zary [off-list ref]
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller [off-list ref]

:040000 040000 5480780cb5e75c57122a621fc3bab0108c16be27 d97efd9cc0a465dff76bcd3a3c547f718f2a5345 M    drivers


Reverting that from 3.5 makes the issue go away.

Did this ever get resolved in 3.6-rc7 or any older kernel?  I can't
revert the patch from 3.5.y unless it's also fixed in Linus's tree.

thanks,

greg k-h