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Message-ID: <20210218172259.GJ1463@shell.armlinux.org.uk> References: <8cf503db-ac4c-a546-13c0-aac6da5c073b@broadcom.com> <20210218113107.GA12547@1wt.eu> <602E766F.758C74D8@users.sourceforge.net> <20210218143341.GB13671@1wt.eu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20210218_122616_355796_50CD26B8 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 10.19 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Jari Ruusu , Scott Branden , Greg Kroah-Hartman , LKML , BCM Kernel Feedback , Willy Tarreau , Linux ARM Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 05:19:54PM +0000, Jari Ruusu wrote: > In-tree iwlwifi worked half-ok on early 4.9.y stable. If > connection somehow de-autheticated (out of radio range or > whatever) it crashed the kernel spectacularly. Eventually that was > fixed and in-tree iwlwifi worked fine on 4.9.y and 4.14.y stable > kernels. On second half of year 2020 (don't remember exactly when) > iwlwifi started causing erratic behavior when some random process > terminated, as if some exit processing left some resources > un-freed or something weird like that. So you bisected the stable kernel, and reported the problem so the problem commit could be dealt with? -- RMK's Patch system: https://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/ FTTP is here! 40Mbps down 10Mbps up. Decent connectivity at last! _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel