Re: PROBLEM: 5.3.0-rc* causes iwlwifi failure

[Stuart Little <achirvasub@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 11:59:59AM +0300, Serge Belyshev wrote:
> It looks like that:
> 
> commit 4fd445a2c855bbcab81fbe06d110e78dbd974a5b
> Author: Haim Dreyfuss <haim.dreyfuss@intel.com>
> Date:   Thu May 2 11:45:02 2019 +0300
> 
>     iwlwifi: mvm: Add log information about SAR status
>     
>     Inform users when SAR status is changing.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Haim Dreyfuss <haim.dreyfuss@intel.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
> 
> 
> is the culprit. (manually) reverting it on top of 5.3-rc4 makes
> everything work again.

Revert how?

git revert 4fd445a2c855bbcab81fbe06d110e78dbd974a5b

errors out:

warning: inexact rename detection was skipped due to too many files.
warning: you may want to set your merge.renamelimit variable to at least 1583 and retry the command.
error: could not revert 4fd445a2c855... iwlwifi: mvm: Add log information about SAR status
hint: after resolving the conflicts, mark the corrected paths
hint: with 'git add <paths>' or 'git rm <paths>'
hint: and commit the result with 'git commit'

Making a patch out of the commit with

git format-patch -1 4fd445a2c855bbcab81fbe06d110e78dbd974a5b

and attempting to apply the patch in reverse with

git apply -R --ignore-space-change --ignore-whitespace <patch filename>

also fails:

error: patch failed: drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/fw.c:861
error: drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/fw.c: patch does not apply
error: patch failed: drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/nvm.c:620
error: drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/nvm.c: patch does not apply