[SRU] Need backport-iwlwifi-dkms in Bionic

[You-Sheng Yang]

backport-iwlwifi-dkms is already in Eoan/Focal. We are requested to enable this wifi in 18.04 so we need this package in Bionic as well.

No possible regression as this is a new and independent package in Bionic.

Proposed PPA in https://launchpad.net/~vicamo/+archive/ubuntu/ppa-1856024.

[You-Sheng Yang (vicamo)]

Need sponsor for uploading fix in the PPA.

[You-Sheng Yang (vicamo)]

Still in bionic-proposed: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/bionic/+queue?queue_state=0&queue_text=backport-iwlwifi-dkms

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

Hello You-Sheng, or anyone else affected,

Accepted backport-iwlwifi-dkms into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/backport-iwlwifi-dkms/7906-0ubuntu3~18.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[You-Sheng Yang (vicamo)]

Verified against following kernels:

  * 4.15.0-73-generic
  * 4.15.0-1066-oem
  * 5.0.0-37-generic
  * 5.0.0-1033-oem-osp1
  * 5.3.0-26-generic (to add OBSOLETE_BY=5.0.0)

[You-Sheng Yang (vicamo)]

Since 5.3 hwe kernel has been landed to Bionic, and this (7906) would fail 11n AP association on 5.3 kernels, I'm marking this as verification-failed-bionic and will upload another revision to disable compiling this dkms against kernel 5.0 or above.

[You-Sheng Yang (vicamo)]

Depending on changes in bug 1859389.

[Anthony Wong (anthonywong)]

5.3 HWE kernel is still in -proposed, so 7906-0ubuntu3~18.04.1 doesn't have immediate impact. More importantly 7906-0ubuntu3~18.04.1 is needed to fix bug 1859472 so we should get it out of the door as soon as possible and then fix bug 1859389 in next SRU.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for backport-iwlwifi-dkms has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

the package never left the new queue, so the archive version wasn't tested

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

apparently it was downloaded directly from lp

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package backport-iwlwifi-dkms - 7906-0ubuntu3~18.04.1

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backport-iwlwifi-dkms (7906-0ubuntu3~18.04.1) bionic; urgency=critical

  * Initial release (LP: #1856024).
    - Sync from Eoan 7906-0ubuntu3.

 -- You-Sheng Yang <email address hidden> Wed, 11 Dec 2019 16:20:39 +0800

[Elvis Stansvik (elvstone)]

Hi folks. I'm on bionic and got a desktop notification about "closed drivers may be necessary..." when this SRU landed in bionic-updates.

Just to check: I only really need this package if I'm suffering from https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/backport-iwlwifi-dkms/+bug/1859472 ? If I don't really have any issues with wifi, I can ignore the `backport-iwlwifi-dkms` package and use the `iwlwifi` driver that I already have from `linux-modules-extra-5.0.0-37-generic`?

Or is it recommended for everyone to install this package?

[Elvis Stansvik (elvstone)]

(Forgot to say in my previous post, I'm using the HWE kernel, so 5.0.0-37 currently)

[You-Sheng Yang (vicamo)]

Yes, please ignore that message as we're to land another commit to disable
the build against kernel 5.0 or above.

Elvis Stansvik <email address hidden> 於 2020年1月15日 週三 17:20 寫道：

> (Forgot to say in my previous post, I'm using the HWE kernel, so
> 5.0.0-37 currently)
>
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> Title:
> [SRU] Need backport-iwlwifi-dkms in Bionic
>
> Status in OEM Priority Project:
> New
> Status in backport-iwlwifi-dkms package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in backport-iwlwifi-dkms source package in Bionic:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> backport-iwlwifi-dkms is already in Eoan/Focal. We are requested to
> enable this wifi in 18.04 so we need this package in Bionic as well.
>
> No possible regression as this is a new and independent package in
> Bionic.
>
> Proposed PPA in
> https://launchpad.net/~vicamo/+archive/ubuntu/ppa-1856024.
>
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[Elvis Stansvik (elvstone)]

Alright, thanks Yang, makes sense.