James Prestwood <prestwoj@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi Kalle, > > On 12/19/23 10:24 AM, Kalle Valo wrote: >> James Prestwood <prestwoj@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> I noticed this after one of our devices dropped offline. The device >>> had roamed 7 minutes prior so I doubt that had anything to do with it. >>> But then we get this, and then tons of warnings. I'm happy to provide >>> full stack traces but its quite a few, not sure which ones are >>> relevant or not. After all the warnings IWD got an RTNL del link event >>> and was unable to recover from that. It seems after that ath11k tried >>> to power back on but failed. >>> >>> This is a stock 6.2 ubuntu kernel, WCN6855: >> BTW I don't know how it's nowadays, but back in the day Ubuntu heavily >> modified ath11k. And we can't support distro kernels anyway as we don't >> know what they have changed in the kernel. > > Ok. I understand where your coming from, but at the same time Ubuntu > is the largest linux distribution so it seems like these type of > reports wouldn't be uncommon. OTOH maybe users just go directly to > Ubuntu. Isn't the recommendation that distro kernel bugs should be reported to distro bug trackers? At least that's what I have understood. At least our bugzilla says that: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/ > Anyways, this is a list of patches isn't huge according to the > changelog (for 6.2): > > - wifi: ath11k: fix registration of 6Ghz-only phy without the > full channel > - wifi: ath11k: add support default regdb while searching > board-2.bin for > - wifi: ath11k: fix memory leak in WMI firmware stats > - wifi: ath11k: Add missing check for ioremap > - wifi: ath11k: Ignore frags from uninitialized peer in dp. > - wifi: ath11k: Fix SKB corruption in REO destination ring > - wifi: ath11k: reduce the MHI timeout to 20s > - wifi: ath11k: Use platform_get_irq() to get the interrupt > - wifi: ath11k: fix SAC bug on peer addition with sta band migration > - wifi: ath11k: fix deinitialization of firmware resources > - wifi: ath11k: fix writing to unintended memory region > - wifi: ath11k: Fix memory leak in ath11k_peer_rx_frag_setup > - wifi: ath11k: fix monitor mode bringup crash > - wifi: ath11k: debugfs: fix to work with multiple PCI devices > - wifi: ath11k: allow system suspend to survive ath11k > > I see the dilemma of not wanting to waste time debugging when there > are unknown changes applied. I was hoping someone would recognize the > behavior and could suggest a patch/kernel/firmware to try Sure, I also get where you are coming from :) Just wanted to make sure you know the problem with distro kernels. -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
