Hello, On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 2:34 AM Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 6:21 PM Marcin Juszkiewicz > <mjuszkiew...@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 _______________________________________________ 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
