Request for Intel WiFi Backports - AX2xx
by Kevin Anderson
Hello,
I was curious what the process is for requesting patches to be
backported for the Fedora kernel release.
There was a iwlwifi issue that would cause firmware resets and cause
performance to significantly degrade to around ~500Kb/s till the
interface was brought down and then up again. Upstream identified the
issue and there are 2 patches that fix the issue by increasing the
scan timeout[1] and in cases where the firmware resets allows it to
recover quicker[2]. The patch to allow for quicker firmware recovery
is present in Linus' tree and present in the 5.16 rc releases while
the patch to prevent the firmware from crashing in the instance is in
net-next for 5.17.
I've been running the two patches, both are very minor changes in my
opinion, on top of the 5.15 Fedora kernel but it would be great to not
have to continue rebuilding the kernel and I know others that would
benefit from the patches being included.
I believe this impacts any Intel WiFi 6 cards but I hit this on the
AX210 in my Framework laptop.
[1] - https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214549
[2] - https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214693
Thanks,
Kevin
2 years, 5 months