Brief update

Hi,

I am sorry but RL hasn't allowed me to work as much as I had hoped on
iwlwifi and 802.11 in the last weeks.

I have started to push (minor) changes into main and I hope to continue
on-off so in the next days to clear most of the changes I can push w/o
possibly breaking things first ("The [valuable] Noise").

I also have some non-80211 LinuxKPI changes needed by drivers in review
which have hit a "timeout" now as I didn't get any further comments [1].
There's one or two more to come.

I'll then start to push in some further changes to LinuxKPI 802.11 which
at this point I cannot pin-point which one may have an issue (or if
further experimental local changes are at fault).  I'll try to push
those in with a heads up or post a good-old patch for testing first.

I know some of you are waiting on these changes so you can work on
Realtek rtw88 and rtw89, mt76, or the Atheros bits (I know laptops are
shipping with ath11k).

I also would need the help of a ports committer soon to create some
firmware packages.  If anyone is willing to work with me on that,
please drop me a note.

Lastly I am still aware of the interface down/up issue.  I have a test
case ("dry-run") which pushes the entire state machine up and down in a
loop (just without packets -- and with that with some values not being
there) by now which I kept doing over the Holidays and I can let that
run for hours without crashing so (a) we'll need something even more
clever to find this, and (b) I tried to reach out and see if I can get
help otherwise but given the Holidays we'll probably have to wait until
mid-January for any hope.

Until later and given it's 4AM here now and some of you are close to 2023
already -- happy and joyful and healthy and successful New Calendar Year
to all of you and please also deploy IPv6, not just WiFi ;-)


[1] D37088, D37523, D37599, D37593, D37522  (in random order)

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     r15:7