Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86: disable CONFIG_GENERIC_HWEIGHT and remove __HAVE_ARCH_SW_HWEIGHT

2019-02-18 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 02:59:31PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > arch/x86/include/asm/arch_hweight.h uses __sw_hweight{32,64} as > alternatives, but they are implemented in arch/x86/lib/hweight.S > > x86 does not rely on the generic C implementation lib/hweight.c > at all, so CONFIG_GENERIC_HWEI

Re: [PATCH 1/2] wireless: mt76: call hweight8() instead of __sw_hweight8()

2019-02-18 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 09:20:46PM +0200, Kalle Valo wrote: > So Masahiro, could you hold your x86 patch for a while until the mt76 > patch will be in Linus' tree? That should not take more than two weeks, > I think. No hurry - I won't take it into the x86 now and queue it for 5.1 because it is no

WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 2485 at drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c:1752 iwl_trans_pcie_grab_nic_access+0x110/0x120 [iwlwifi]

2016-04-14 Thread Borislav Petkov
Hi, so I'm seeing this when wlan0 tries to associate. On 4.6-rc2 + tip. After that, wifi is dead in the water. Anyone have a clue? And 4.5 seems fine, I'm typing from it as we speak. ... [2.111418] iwlwifi :02:00.0: loaded firmware version 21.302800.0 op_mode iwlmvm ... [2.220954] i

Re: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 2485 at drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c:1752 iwl_trans_pcie_grab_nic_access+0x110/0x120 [iwlwifi]

2016-04-16 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 04:16:02AM +, Grumbach, Emmanuel wrote: > [1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/backport-iwlwi > fi.git/ It is very strange to pull from this repo, git fetch is doing something for a while now without any forward progress. In any case, 4.5 is bad too

Re: iwlwifi-driver card doesn't work with 3.19-rc2+

2014-12-30 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 09:41:41PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote: > If wireless maintainers think otherwise, I'll send a revert request to > Linus for consideration. I wonder if the reaction would be like this one: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75 :-) -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fa

Re: iwlwifi-driver card doesn't work with 3.19-rc2+

2014-12-31 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 07:50:19AM +, Grumbach, Emmanuel wrote: > Now - basically all your argument is on Johannes's comment: > "deprecated enough". I think we have a chicken and egg problem here. > We can't break things towards userland. Good. But we do want to > deprecate this API because lot

Re: [PATCH] Revert "cfg80211: make WEXT compatibility unselectable"

2014-12-31 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Thu, Jan 01, 2015 at 01:40:53AM +1100, Julian Calaby wrote: > Sadly, nobody will read that. It needs to be at least an error, > possibly with a big splat to scare people. > > Maybe using one of WARN()'s siblings instead. And that opens a lot of useless bugzillas... The right thing to do is go

Re: [PATCH] Revert "cfg80211: make WEXT compatibility unselectable"

2014-12-31 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Thu, Jan 01, 2015 at 01:56:54AM +1100, Julian Calaby wrote: > The point is that WEXT has been depreciated for _years_. Nobody > seems to have listened. Yes, talking to maintainers will get the > last holdouts of the "big" tools (e.g. wicd) to fix them, but it's > not going to change all the peop