Comment 2 for bug 643469

It appears that http://metanav.uninett.no/hg/series/3.6.x/rev/b60b52c9bb34 is a partial fix for this.

If one's status preference settings are such that only devices owned by specific organizational units are to be displayed, the old behavior resurfaces, and all the netboxes owned by that org is added to the URL.

The correct solution here is to add the org as a search parameter in the device history URL.