Hi Luca, Thank you for the guidance! - Kevin On Tue, Dec 28, 2021 at 1:46 AM Coelho, Luciano <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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.
