On Thu, 2020-02-13 at 07:39 +0000, Grumbach, Emmanuel wrote: > 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 for the fix, discussions and merging while I was away! This indeed looks correct and I'll take this patch to our internal tree now to align it with the upstream code. I guess this should be sent to stable v5.5 as well. Dan, would you like to do that? -- Cheers, Luca.
