netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/3] iwlwifi: Load firmware exclusively for Intel WiFi

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Date:   Tue, 8 Jan 2019 16:26:01 -0800
From:   João Paulo Rechi Vita <jprvita@...il.com>
To:     Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
Cc:     Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@...onical.com>,
        Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@...el.com>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Intel Linux Wireless <linuxwifi@...el.com>,
        linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Upstreaming Team <linux@...lessm.com>,
        João Paulo Rechi Vita <jprvita@...lessm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] iwlwifi: Load firmware exclusively for Intel WiFi

Hello Marcel,

On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 11:27 AM João Paulo Rechi Vita <jprvita@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Marcel,
>
> On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 4:36 PM João Paulo Rechi Vita <jprvita@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Marcel,
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 11:49 PM Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > our hardware teams from the Bluetooth and WiFi side really need to look at this.
>
> Were you able to get attention from the hardware teams with the logs
> I've provided? Are there any news or an idea of when / if we can
> expect this to be fixed in firmware? If not, do you have suggestions
> for an alternative solution?
>

Sorry to bother you again with this, but I'd really like to figure out
some way forward here. Did you get any feedback from the hardware
teams? Otherwise, I understand having an inter-dependency between the
wifi and bt kernel modules is not desirable, so do you have any
suggestion on how to solve this without adding this dependency?

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João Paulo Rechi Vita
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