On Mon, 2021-12-27 at 19:59 -0500, Kevin Anderson wrote: > Hello, Hi Kevin, > I wanted to see if I could have two patches backported to 5.15 stable > that concern Intel iwlwifi AX2XX stability. > > The patches are attached to the kernel bugzilla that can be found > here: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214549. I've also > attached them to this email. > > The patches fix an issue with the Intel AX210 that I have where it can > cause a firmware reset when the device is under load causing > performance to drop to around ~500Kb/s till the interface is > restarted. This reset is easy to reproduce during normal use such as > streaming videos and is problematic for devices such as laptops that > primarily use wifi for connectivity. > > The mac80211 change is currently in the 5.16 RC and the scan timeout > is in netdev-next and is supposed to be scheduled for 5.17 from what I > can tell. > > I believe that the patches meet the requirements of the -stable tree > as it makes the adapter for many users including myself difficult to > use reliably. > > If this is the incorrect venue for this please let me know. You can send the patches directly yourself, but not as attachments and with with the following tag added: commit <SHA1 of the commit in Linus' tree> upstream. You can find more info on how to do it here: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst Thanks for your help! -- Cheers, Luca.
