Re: Request for Intel WiFi Backports - AX2xx
Hello,
On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 2:34 AM Peter Robinson <pbrobinson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 6:21 PM Marcin Juszkiewicz
<mjuszkiewicz(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> W dniu 28.12.2021 o 00:30, Kevin Anderson pisze:
>
> > There was a iwlwifi issue that would cause firmware resets and cause
> > performance to significantly degrade to around ~500Kb/s till the
> > interface was brought down and then up again. Upstream identified the
> > issue and there are 2 patches that fix the issue by increasing the
> > scan timeout[1] and in cases where the firmware resets allows it to
> > recover quicker[2]. The patch to allow for quicker firmware recovery
> > is present in Linus' tree and present in the 5.16 rc releases while
> > the patch to prevent the firmware from crashing in the instance is in
> > net-next for 5.17.
>
> Did anyone thought of merging those patches into 5.15-stable upstream?
>
> This way it lands in all distributions on next kernel sync.
The kernel team will generally request that, outside of Fedora that
probably makes sense given 5.15 is LTS and I'm surprised it hasn't
actually happened given the widespread uses of iwl
One of the changes was already in 5.15-stable upstream. The other
change is still in netdev-next and once it is in Linus' tree I am
going to request a backport (assuming the maintainers don't do it
automatically).
Thanks,
Kevin Anderson