On 11 April 2018 at 22:27, Jani Nikula jani.nikula@linux.intel.com wrote:
On Wed, 11 Apr 2018, Ian W MORRISON ianwmorrison@gmail.com wrote:
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NAK on indiscriminate Cc: stable. There are zero guarantees that older kernels will work with whatever firmware you throw at them.
I included 'Cc: stable' so the patch would get added to the v4.16 and v4.15 kernels which I have tested with the patch. I found that earlier kernels didn't support the 'linux-firmware' package required to get wifi working on Intel's new Gemini Lake NUC.
You realize that this patch should have nothing to do with wifi?
Yes. Runtime power management depends on the patch but when distros such as Ubuntu are installed on a Intel Gemini Lake NUC as an example, wifi/bluetooth depends on Intel Wireless-AC 9462 which in turn depends on v4.15 as a minimum so my logic was to add the patch to 4.15 and later.
Rodrigo, Anusha, if you think Cc: stable is appropriate, please indicate the specific versions of stable it is appropriate for.
Thanks you..
Best regards, Ian