Hi, On Tue, 2023-10-03 at 13:52 +0200, Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis) wrote: > [CCing the regressions list] > > On 25.09.23 21:03, Johannes Berg wrote: > > On Mon, 2023-09-25 at 14:39 -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > > > > Did that patch help? > > > > > > I haven't tried, to be honest. It's been years since I compiled a > > > kernel, so I haven't actually seriously considered it. But I can > > > definitely put that on my list if it would be useful for you! > > Heh ok. Well we can also try it I guess. Or reason our way through it, > > but I'm pretty sure something like that should be done here. > > > > > > Yes, you can ... but I mean, we still do want to consider this a bug, I > > > > think, since we explicitly built the thing to load the older firmware. > > > > It just gets _far_ less testing. > > > > > > Got it, happy to play guinea pig a little further if that's useful. > > Well you might want to go for the extra stability instead :-) I'm kind > > of thinking along the lines of "if you can download the next wifi > > firmware with the current one, that's probably good enough". :) > > Well, that's not how Linus wants things to be, as due to this "no > regression" rule things should continue to work if people update the > kernel without updating linux-firmware (as also explained in > Documentation/driver-api/firmware/firmware-usage-guidelines.rst). > > That's what I though when I saw that message initially, but I thought: > well, not worth a comment, the reporter apparently doesn't mind that > much. But since then I saw more and more reports that looked related to > my untrained eyes (and thus might not be related at all!). > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217894 > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217894#c6 ;(same ticket) > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217963 > https://lore.kernel.org/all/f6448719-14e2-4962-ac3d-1be3c19156ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > Gregory, Johannes, is there something wrong here with 6.5.y? If yes: is > anything already been done to improve the state of things? > > Ciao, Thorsten (wearing his 'the Linux kernel's regression tracker' hat) > -- > Everything you wanna know about Linux kernel regression tracking: > https://linux-regtracking.leemhuis.info/about/#tldr > If I did something stupid, please tell me, as explained on that page. The patch in [1] should solve the issue. The problem was that wrong version of Firmware API was used for some older versions. [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/20230926165546.086e635fbbe6.Ia660f35ca0b1079f2c2ea92fd8d14d8101a89d03@changeid/
