Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Feb 2021 17:22:59 +0000 | From | Russell King - ARM Linux admin <> | Subject | Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years? |
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On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 05:19:54PM +0000, Jari Ruusu wrote: > In-tree iwlwifi worked half-ok on early 4.9.y stable. If > connection somehow de-autheticated (out of radio range or > whatever) it crashed the kernel spectacularly. Eventually that was > fixed and in-tree iwlwifi worked fine on 4.9.y and 4.14.y stable > kernels. On second half of year 2020 (don't remember exactly when) > iwlwifi started causing erratic behavior when some random process > terminated, as if some exit processing left some resources > un-freed or something weird like that.
So you bisected the stable kernel, and reported the problem so the problem commit could be dealt with?
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