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Re: [PATCH] iwlwifi: Mark IWLMEI as broken

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Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> From: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> The iwlmei driver breaks iwlwifi when returning from suspend; the bug
>> report[0] has been open for four months now, and now fix seems to be
>
> s/now/no/? I can fix that.

Yeah, oops, sorry...

>> forthcoming. Since just disabling the iwlmei driver works as a workaround,
>> let's mark the config option as broken until it can be fixed properly.
>>
>> [0] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215937
>
> So does the bug only happen with iwd? Should I mention that in the
> commit log? It would be good to describe the conditions when the bug
> happens.

Well, what happens is that the interface ends up in the 'down' state
after coming back from suspend. And iwd doesn't touch the interface
state, but wpa_supplicant does, so the user-visible "my WiFi doesn't
work" thing only happens on iwd...

>> Fixes: 2da4366f9e2c ("iwlwifi: mei: add the driver to allow cooperation with CSME")
>> Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I assigned the patch to me on patchwork and will queue for v6.0.

Great, thanks!

-Toke




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