Re: LinuxKPI (iwlwifi, rtw8x) Please test! Important! (also in stable/15 now)

On Wed, 25 Feb 2026, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:

I've done the MFCs and all changes are also all in stab;e/15 now.
So please test!

Lots of health,
/bz


> Hi,
>
> about 3 years ago, some of you may remember, we were hunting down the
> constant (firmware) crashes with iwlwifi due to net80211 not playing nice
> and the LinuxKPI 802.11 sta state machine not able to deal with it to make
> the firmware happy.
>
> In that course I unfolded some state machine bits, which resultet in code
> duplication and some other complications.  Fast forward, I just undone some
> of that in main.  This is probably one of the more risky changes as of late.
> I tried to test it but as we also have learnt in the last years, the testing
> of many will reveal problems more likely than me trying to test in my limited
> capacity.
>
>
>
> So please all test main now!
>
> Prepare yourself in case of trouble (boot envorments, or otherwise, in case
> you need to roll back know how to).
> Let it run for a few hours or a day or two and then please report back if
> it is still working without extra troubles compared to before.
> In case you hit any hiccup please report right away!
> I will try to reply promptly (I do sleep occassionally) but real life
> currently also takes some share so it may be a day before I get to the
> emails.
> Please include driver and chipset/firmware you are using if possible
> along with any possible problem report.
>
>
>
> Why is this important (now)?
>
> There'll be follow-up changes needed to get the iwlwifi update into main
> as well so that all drivers are on the same level (v6.19) for a change
> again.  The reason this is important now is that this will be our base
> for 15.1-RELEASE so we will have 6ish weeks still to sort out any problems.
>
> In addition (bonus points) if things go smoothly there is the next branch
> waiting for me to merge to bring further improvements still during March
> (at least to main and possibly stable/15).
>
>
> What if you are on stable/15?
>
> I believe you could just grab the last changes and merge them yourself.
> I will go and have a look and try to merge anything I can Thu or Fri
> (before the weekend) to keep the diff minimal in case that helps!
>
>
> Lots of health!
> Bjoern
>
>

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     r15:7