iwlwifi: Unknown symbol iwl_mei_is_connected
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
backport-iwlwifi-dkms (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
You-Sheng Yang | ||
Focal |
Incomplete
|
High
|
You-Sheng Yang | ||
Impish |
Fix Released
|
High
|
You-Sheng Yang | ||
Jammy |
Fix Released
|
High
|
You-Sheng Yang |
Bug Description
[SRU Justification]
[Impact]
backport-
The first issue is "unknown symbol iwl_mei_
The second problem is that even we addressed 9340 with aforementioned fix backported, the iwlwifi module may still fail to load firmware that is known fixed in at least 9580 that is being proposed. This would affects Focal oem-5.14 as well.
[Fix]
Bump to 9580 that fixes both issues stated above.
[Test Case]
Compile and run against Focal oem-5.14/
[Where problems could occur]
While the revision number represents the commits since the git root commit of backport-iwlwifi, this is going to back port more than a thousand commits for Focal (8324 -> 9580) and 240 ones for Impish/Jammy (9340 -> 9580), there can always be issue like we have here now or later for kernels of a more recent version. While this package is to enable people running legacy kernels to be able to enjoy their new toys, new hardware support and bug fixes shall be backported as long as needed to justify its name "backport-
========== original bug report ==========
Since backport-iwlwifi version 9241[1], a new module iwlmei was introduced but not yet included in the dkms.conf installed. This fails the kernel module loading with:
iwlwifi: Unknown symbol iwl_mei_
Changed in backport-iwlwifi-dkms (Ubuntu Impish): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in backport-iwlwifi-dkms (Ubuntu Impish): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
assignee: | nobody → You-Sheng Yang (vicamo) |
description: | updated |
Changed in backport-iwlwifi-dkms (Ubuntu Focal): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
importance: | Undecided → High |
assignee: | nobody → You-Sheng Yang (vicamo) |
Changed in backport-iwlwifi-dkms (Ubuntu Jammy): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
This backports two commits from:
* https:/ /git.kernel. org/pub/ scm/linux/ kernel/ git/iwlwifi/ backport- iwlwifi. git/commit/ ?id=8e2e67754e3 e5d2819c4071b9b 3d5a2ba890e9b4 /git.kernel. org/pub/ scm/linux/ kernel/ git/iwlwifi/ backport- iwlwifi. git/commit/ ?id=87dce6e9817 a64a51aa2719d7f 8a080ae6a436a4
* https:/
which would effectively disable iwlmei before 5.20. As a result, also drop the patch "0010-mei_ cl_bus- fix-build- error-with- kernels- 5.13.patch" for bug 1951580.