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Sending this again, but this time also to Stanislaw's email address
currently found in MAINTAINERS.

Stanislaw, can you help with this regression?

Helmut: or can you help somehow to get things rolling again?

Ciao, Thorsten, your Linux kernel regression tracker

On 05.11.21 14:25, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Lo, this is your Linux kernel regression tracker speaking.
> 
> On 01.10.21 08:56, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> (adding regressions list for easier tracking)
> 
> Thx for this, that's how it got on the radar of regzbot, my Linux kernel
> regression tracking bot:
> https://linux-regtracking.leemhuis.info/regzbot/regression/87czop5j33.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> 
>> Exuvo <exuvo@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> I would like to get this resolved, is there any more information you need from me?
>>>
>>> I have been manually patching this all year with:
>>>
>>> drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00usb.c
>>> - if (rt2x00dev->num_proto_errs > 8)
>>> -    return true;
>>>
>>> It seems to just be some part of rt2800_load_firmware that is not
>>> supported on my device and generating errors but it has been running
>>> without problems in AP mode with daily usage.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>>>>>>> This most likely is the problem introduced by commit:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> commit e383c70474db32b9d4a3de6dfbd08784d19e6751
>>>>>>>>> Author: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>>>> Date:   Tue Mar 12 10:51:42 2019 +0100
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>      rt2x00: check number of EPROTO errors
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Plase check below patch that increase number of EPROTO checks
>>>>>>>>> before marking device removed. If it does not help, plese
>>>>>>>>> check if reverting above commits helps.
>>
>> Should we do a revert? Can someone submit that including an explanation
>> of the regression.
> 
> Afaics nothing happened since then. Or did I miss anything? How can we
> get the ball rolling again?
> 
> Stanislaw, is there anything Exuvo (who offered to help afaics) could
> test to get us closer to a fix?
> 
> Ciao, Thorsten
> 
> P.S.: I have no personal interest in this issue and watch it using
> regzbot. Hence, feel free to exclude me on further messages in this
> thread after the first reply, as I'm only posting this mail to hopefully
> get a status update and things rolling again.

#regzbot poke



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