On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 10:31:49AM +0000, Jari Ruusu wrote: > On Friday, February 19, 2021 10:22 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman > <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > That's not the goal of stable kernel releases/trees. If the driver > > version that is in 4.19.y does not work for you on release 4.19.0, odds > > of that "changing" in later stable releases is slim to none. > > But in-tree iwlwifi worked fine on 4.9.y and 4.14.y , and then got broken > in later 4.14.y versions.
Did you report that breakage to us and the developers of the driver? Sounds like a regression that people would love to hear about and get fixed. > I tried later versions of 4.19.y in an attempt to > fix the breakage. Basically you are are saying that I should have NOT > attempted to upgrage 4.9.y -> 4.14.y -> 4.19.y Without anyone reporting a problem, how can anyone know to fix it? thanks, greg k-h
