Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On Thu, 26 Aug 2021 16:38:35 +0200 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> > I did some investiation and I suspect that commit ce78ffa3ef16 ("net:
>>> > really fix the build...")[1] is for handling a conflict between net-next
>>> > and char-misc-next trees related to Loic's commit 0092a1e3f763 ("bus:
>>> > mhi: Add inbound buffers allocation flag"). Greg mentions this in a
>>> > commit[2]:
>>> >
>>> > commit 813272ed5238b37c81e448b302048e8008570121
>>> > Merge: de0534df9347 36a21d51725a
>>> > Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> >
>>> > Merge 5.14-rc5 into char-misc-next
>>> >
>>> > We need the fixes in here as well, and resolves some merge issues with
>>> > the mhi codebase.
>>> >
>>> > If my assumption is correct when I propose that we revert commit
>>> > ce78ffa3ef16 for v5.14, AFAICS it's not really needed for v5.14 (commit
>>> > 0092a1e3f763 is in -next, not in Linus' tree yet) and commit
>>> > ce78ffa3ef16 breaks ath11k. And the conflict between net-next and
>>> > char-misc-next can be then later fixed during the merge window.
>>> >
>>> > Will this work for everyone? If no objections, I'll submit the revert to
>>> > Linus later today. We are getting really close to final v5.14 release so
>>> > not much time left to fix this.
>>> >
>>> > Just to reiterate why the urgency: commit ce78ffa3ef16 broke ath11k in
>>> > v5.14-rc5, users have reported (and I have confirmed) that at least
>>> > QCA6390 support is broken but I suspect all Qualcomm Wi-Fi 6 devices
>>> > supported by ath11k are currently broken.
>>>
>>> No objection from me for reverting that, if it fixes the problems you
>>> are seeing for 5.14-final.
>>>
>>> The goal was for the mhi changes to go through the networking tree in
>>> the first place, I don't see how this got out of sync.
>>>
>>> If this is reverted, some help on how to resolve the merge issues it
>>> will cause would be appreciated.
>>
>> Also no objections here. FWIW I'm about to send the last PR for
>> networking, still waiting on BPF. You can send the revert to netdev,
>> or directly to Linus as you prefer. LMK.
>
> I prefer take it via the net tree if possible, so if you can wait ~2h
> and I'll send it to you.
I now submitted the revert, please take it into the net tree if you
still can:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20210826172816.24478-1-kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
I also tested the build with various QRTR options and didn't see any
build errors.
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