On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 6:31 PM Kevin Anderson <anderson...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > I was curious what the process is for requesting patches to be > backported for the Fedora kernel release. > > 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. > > I've been running the two patches, both are very minor changes in my > opinion, on top of the 5.15 Fedora kernel but it would be great to not > have to continue rebuilding the kernel and I know others that would > benefit from the patches being included. > > I believe this impacts any Intel WiFi 6 cards but I hit this on the > AX210 in my Framework laptop. > > [1] - https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214549 > [2] - https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214693 >
The best way would be to file bugs in the Red Hat Bugzilla for this. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora&version=35&component=kernel -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
