From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([193.170.194.197]:59792 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S972386AbdDXTF0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Apr 2017 15:05:26 -0400 Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 12:05:24 -0700 From: Andi Kleen To: Luca Coelho Cc: Andi Kleen , linuxwifi@intel.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 4.11-rc* iwlwifi instable Message-ID: <20170424190524.GP22592@two.firstfloor.org> (sfid-20170424_210530_430980_47245284) References: <20170424005400.GK22592@two.firstfloor.org> <1493016631.31741.139.camel@coelho.fi> <20170424124017.GL22592@two.firstfloor.org> <1493059948.31741.161.camel@coelho.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1493059948.31741.161.camel@coelho.fi> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 09:52:28PM +0300, Luca Coelho wrote: > On Mon, 2017-04-24 at 05:40 -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > Any fixes/workarounds? > > > > > > It seems that you are using an old firmware version: > > > > > > > [70585.074356] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Loaded firmware version: 21.302800.0 > > > > > > We have already published version -27 for 4.11 and you're still using > > > version -21. You can get the latest version from here: > > > > Ok if the old firmware is not supported anymore how about a warning > > or an error? > > It is expected to work with -21. If it really doesn't work with it > anymore, but works with the newer ones, I'll bump the minimum supported > version so we'll print an error and bail out. A warning may be better because it can be difficult to get a new firmware if the network is dead. Or perhaps error + override argument. Even the old firmware works at least for some time. > Hope this helps. And please let me know if iwlwifi-7265D-27.ucode works > for you. So far it seems to work, and connects much faster than the old one. Thanks, -Andi