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Re: After upgrading to 4.11.1, wifi driver refuses to load after being unloaded once.

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Luca Coelho <luca@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, 2017-10-17 at 14:23 -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 05:05:57PM +0300, Luca Coelho wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > 
>> > On Tue, 2017-10-17 at 02:44 -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote:
>> > > Was broken in 4.11, still broken in 4.12. This is crippling, I'm
>> > > not
>> > > running linux so that I have to reboot it to reload an intel
>> > > wireless
>> > > driver :-/
>> > 
>> > Can you report a bug in https://bugzilla.kernel.org so it's easier
>> > to
>> > track this?
>> > 
>> > The problem seems to be that the rootport is not leaving D3 for
>> > some
>> > reason when the driver is loaded again.  Do you have
>> > CONFIG_IWLWIFI_PCIE_RTPM enabled in your .config? (you shouldn't)
>> 
>>  
>> I don't know how or why, but I seem to:
>> saruman:~# grep IWLWIFI /boot/config-4.12.10-amd64-preempt-sysrq-
>> 20170406 
>> CONFIG_IWLWIFI=m
>> CONFIG_IWLWIFI_LEDS=y
>> CONFIG_IWLWIFI_OPMODE_MODULAR=y
>> # CONFIG_IWLWIFI_BCAST_FILTERING is not set
>> CONFIG_IWLWIFI_PCIE_RTPM=y
>> CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG=y
>> CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEVICE_TRACING=y
>> 
>> I'll remove that, thanks.
>
> Cool, I think that might help.  If it doesn't, please report a bug in
> buzilla. ;)

But a Kconfig option should never break functionality, so IMHO this
still sounds like a bug in iwlwifi.

-- 
Kalle Valo



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