Hi Kalle and Dan, On Wed, 2020-02-12 at 16:46 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote: > Dan Moulding <dmoulding@xxxxxx> writes: > > > This is just a friendly reminder that this patch has been > > submitted, > > for what looks like a fairly major regression in iwlwifi that > > impacts > > (as far as I can tell) *all* 3168 devices. The regression is in the > > v5.5.x series and was for a while back-ported to the stable trees, > > but > > luckily was noticed before the releases were made. > > > > There are at least a few bug reports for this regression: > > > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206329 > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/706810 > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/2/7/811 > > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=252603 > > > > The Gentoo maintainers have already applied this patch to their > > Linux > > sources and marked their bug report "fixed". But it would be really > > nice if we could get this regression fixed in the next stable > > v5.5.x > > release. > > I'll queue this directly to wireless-drivers. Intel folks, are you ok > with this? > The only person who really understand what goes on here is Luca, he is also the one who touched this area I think. Luca is OOO and should be back next week I believe. The patch looks sane and it fixes issues for people, so go ahead and merge it please. If Luca wants to make changes on top of this, he can ask to do those changes on top of that patch. Thanks.
