Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] iwlwifi: mvm: don't allow sched scans without matches to be" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree

["Coelho, Luciano" <luciano.coelho@intel.com>]

On Tue, 2016-03-01 at 20:02 +0000, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 07:52:14PM +0000, Coelho, Luciano wrote:
> > On Tue, 2016-03-01 at 21:45 +0200, Coelho, Luciano wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2016-03-01 at 19:42 +0000, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
> > > wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 07:27:41PM +0000, Coelho, Luciano
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > Hi Greg,
> > > > > 
> > > > > This is strange... I just tried to cherry-pick it on top of
> > > > > 4.4.3
> > > > > and
> > > > > it applied cleanly.
> > > > 
> > > > I think it breaks the build, can you try to test build it as
> > > > well?
> > > 
> > > Sure, I'm building it right now.
> > 
> > Tried to do everything again, from scratch.  The patch applied
> > cleanly
> > and the iwlwifi driver built without any problems.
> > 
> > Pastebin of the output here:
> > 
> > http://pastebin.coelho.fi/cc3fd7dd9016d944.txt
> 
> Ah, I can't use cherry-pick:
> 
> $ patch -p1 < ../iwlwifi-mvm-don-t-allow-sched-scans-without-matches-
> to-be-started.patch 
> can't find file to patch at input line 26
> Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
> The text leading up to this was:
> --------------------------
> > From 5e56276e7555b34550d51459a801ff75eca8b907 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00
> > 2001
> > From: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
> > Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 15:11:15 +0200
> > Subject: iwlwifi: mvm: don't allow sched scans without matches to
> > be started
> > 
> > From: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
> > 
> > commit 5e56276e7555b34550d51459a801ff75eca8b907 upstream.
> > 
> > The firmware can perform a scheduled scan with not matchsets
> > passed,
> > but it can't send notification that results were found.  Since the
> > userspace then cannot know when we got new results and the firmware
> > wouldn't trigger a wake in case we are sleeping, it's better not to
> > allow scans without matchsets.
> > 
> > This fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110831
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/scan.c
> > b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/scan.c
> > index 9a15642f80dd..ea1e177c2ea1 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/scan.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/scan.c
> --------------------------
> File to patch: 
> 
> 
> That's the issue, things got renamed :(

Ah, okay, I should have realized that, sorry.

I thought you were using at least 'git am -3' or something to let git
do its tricks on these minor issues.  I'll send the new patch for 4.4
right away (since I already have it after all). :)

--
Cheers,
Luca.