netdev - Re: [GIT] Networking

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Date:	Thu, 19 May 2016 11:40:23 +0200
From:	Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>
To:	Reinoud Koornstra <reinoudkoornstra@...il.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Coelho, Luciano" <luciano.coelho@...el.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linuxwifi <linuxwifi@...el.com>,
	"Berg, Johannes" <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"kvalo@...eaurora.org" <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
	"egrumbach@...il.com" <egrumbach@...il.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Grumbach, Emmanuel" <emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT] Networking

On 5/19/16, Reinoud Koornstra <reinoudkoornstra@...il.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 2:20 AM, Reinoud Koornstra
> <reinoudkoornstra@...il.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Linus Torvalds
>> <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Linus Torvalds
>>> <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> From what I can tell, there's a merge bug in commit 909b27f70643,
>>>> where David seems to have lost some of the changes to
>>>> iwl_mvm_set_tx_cmd().
>>>>
>>>> I do not know if that's the reason for the problem I see. But I will
>>>> test.
>>>
>>> Yes. The attached patch that fixes the incorrect merge seems to fix
>>> things for me.
>>>
>>> That should mean that the assumption that this problem existed in v4.6
>>> too was wrong, because the incorrect merge came in later. I think
>>> Luciano mis-understood "v4.6+" to mean plain v4.6.
>>>
>>> Reinoud Koornstra, does this patch fix things for you too?
>>
>> Indeed, I meant 4.6+, not 4.6.
>> The patch you attached doesn't change existing code for me in 4.6+ as
>> these two lines are already in there.
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Reinoud.
>>
>
> In the 4.6+ code from today I reverted commit 5c08b0f5026f.
> Now iwlwifi works fine for me again.
> So it's as the Intel guys suspected.
> I'll attached my revert compared to the current 4.6+ development code.
> Thanks,
>

I am not affected by any of these iwlwifi issues.

Can you next time add the commit-subject together with the commit-id,
like this...

commit 5c08b0f5026fcc13efb947c4d1f2ca3558145f68
"iwlwifi: mvm: don't override the rate with the AMSDU len"

...it's easier for followers of this thread.

- Sedat -

[1] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5c08b0f5026fcc13efb947c4d1f2ca3558145f68