Hi Greg,
I have no personal issues against upgrading to a newer kernel myself. The
reason I am working with the 4.4 kernel is that it is the supported
kernel from
my distro's stable release (slackware). Unfortunately slackware's stable
release is
several years old and consequently based on the older 4.4 LTS kernel branch.
The result of the distro packaging this older kernel is multiple users
reporting this
bug to the slackware community so I came to the kernel maintainers to
see if this
can be fixed upstream. I could also advocate for the slackware
maintainer to
apply the patch to his releases if you think that's a better route to take.
For the record, the patch that Willy offered does fix the issue on my
affected
system. That might be a better choice than my request to revert as per the
original email.
Please let me know what you decide.
Thanks,
Bob Funk
On 11/23/19 3:27 AM, Greg KH wrote:
On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 08:33:46PM -0600, Bob Funk wrote:
Hello,
I am contacting the stable branch maintainers with a bug report concerning
the asus-wmi kernel driver in the 4.4 kernel branch. I had initially
contacted
maintainers for the specific driver and received a response stating that I
should contact the stable branch maintainers about the issue instead. Their
opinion was that the patch in question should be reverted rather than
debugged. I will append my initial report here and let you decide what to do
with the bug.
Any reason you can not just use 5.3 or newer for this hardware? Why are
you stuck on 4.4?
thanks,
greg k-h
