Re: Linux regressions report for mainline [2023-04-16]

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 10:49 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 10:59 AM Regzbot (on behalf of Thorsten
> Leemhuis) <regressions@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Wake-on-lan (WOL) apparently is broken for a huge number of users since
> > 6.2 was released[1]. This is known for 8 weeks now and about 4 weeks ago
> > it was bisected to commit 5c62d5aab87 ("ACPICA: Events: Support fixed
> > PCIe wake event") we immediately could have reverted. The developer that
> > looked into this was even willing to do the revert late March, but then
> > got discouraged by a maintainer [2]. But well, a fix was apparently[3]
> > finally posted for review last week (to the acpica-devel list); with a
> > bit of luck your might get it next week. Still a bit sad that 6.2 is
> > broken for so long now, as Greg wants to see it fixed in mainline first.
> >
> > [1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217069
> > [2] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217069#c50
> > [3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/754225a2-95a9-2c36-1886-7da1a78308c2@xxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> I find that bugzilla discussion very confusing, it's not clear what
> the status of the patch actually is.
>
> And the sane lkml thread just says "the patch is under review" without
> actually saying *where* said patch is, or where the review is.
>
> It sounds like it got perhaps into some internal ACPCICA queue? None
> of those links are very clear on any of this.
>
> Rafael?

There is a pull request for ACPICA that corresponds to this (IIUC),
https://github.com/acpica/acpica/pull/866