Comment 36 for bug 991232

The bug was a regression in Maverick relative to Lucid, but it has been present in every release since Maverick, so at this point it's just a bug that has been around for at least 2 years.

It may not be practical to fix the bug in the bcmwl drivers, but the workaround is only a two-line patch with minimal impact. I have attached the patch that implements the workaround only for wl drivers and retains the same behavior for all others.