On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 09:23:49PM +0100, Miguel Borges de Freitas wrote: > Dear all, > > This is a request to backport b7dc7205b2ae6b6c9d9cfc3e47d6f08da8647b10 > (Arm: dts: imx6qdl-sr-som-ti: indicate powering off wifi is safe), > already in Linus tree > (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6qdl-sr-som-ti.dtsi?h=v5.7-rc3&id=b7dc7205b2ae6b6c9d9cfc3e47d6f08da8647b10) > to LTS kernel 5.4 and to stable 5.6.8. > > Reasoning: > > Changes to the wlcore driver during Kernel 5.x development, made the > Cubox-i with the IMX SOM v1.5 (which includes.a TI Wilink 8 wifi > chipset) not power the wireless interface on boot leaving it > completely unusable. This happens since at least kernel 5.3 (older one > I tested) and affects the current stable and LTS latest kernels. The > linked commit, already in linux mainline, restores the wifi > functionality. > > Thanks in advance, Now queued up, thanks. greg k-h
