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FS#66026 - [linux] New last-minute iwlwifi regression on Linux 5.6 release

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by gamezelda (gamezelda) - Monday, 30 March 2020, 12:23 GMT
Last edited by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Thursday, 02 April 2020, 13:46 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

I case you haven't received it yet through other sources, it looks like yet another regression for iwlwifi has been introduced at the last minute before the Linux 5.6 final release:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.6-Broken-Intel-IWLWIFI

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207025

Even though I guess 5.6 will be in testing for a while, since it looks like a pretty serious regression and us iwlwifi users have already been 'unfortunate' for a while, it may be worth to include the fix (linked from the Phoronix article) to the list of Arch patches, since I see that the v5.6-arch1 tag doesn't include it.
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Closed by  Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Thursday, 02 April 2020, 13:46 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Additional comments about closing:  linux will not leave [staging] without being upgraded to 5.6.2 (or later)
Comment by Gunnar Bretthauer (Taijian) - Monday, 30 March 2020, 14:03 GMT
Can confirm - I build the 5.6 release kernel straight from git and my wifi would no longer authenticate.

Applied the fix from here[1] makes it work again.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/?id=be8c827f50a0bcd56361b31ada11dc0a3c2fd240
Comment by Ludovic Fauvet (etix) - Thursday, 02 April 2020, 13:26 GMT
Kernel 5.6.2 has been released including the iwlwifi fix.

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.6.2

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