Hello! When switching from 4.0.5 to 4.1.2, I noticed that my ath9k-based ThinkPenguin WiFi dongle would no longer work (“Resource unavailable” when running ‘iwlist xxx scan’, etc.)
For a while, I suspected a firmware miscompilation but then noticed that using the previous, known-good firmware didn’t help. Then, from the “cfg80211: Exceeded CRDA call max attempts” kernel messages, I thought that maybe CRDA had become mandatory (hence commits 68ac258 and cc205da), but that turned out not to be the case. So I decided to switch to a 4.0.8 kernel (hence 97121c2), and now everything works like a charm. Another problem I had with 4.1.2 is that ‘sudo true’ would often take 10 seconds or so, with or without nscd running. With all that in mind, I’m inclined to use 4.0.8 as the default kernel for the release (specifically, as the default value of the ‘kernel’ field.) What do people think? Thanks, Ludo’.
