Re: [Regression][BISECTED] kernel boot hang after 19898ce9cf8a ("wifi: iwlwifi: split 22000.c into multiple files")

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Sun Jul 09 2023 - 14:08:07 EST


On Sun, 2023-07-09 at 09:31 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jul 2023 at 03:55, Linux regression tracking (Thorsten
> Leemhuis) <regressions@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > [CCing the regression list, netdev, the net maintainers, and Linus;
> > Johannes and Kalle as well, but just for the record, they afaik are
> > unavailable]
>
> So I will release rc1 with this issue, but remind me - if it hasn't
> had any traction next week and the radio silence continues, I'll just
> revert it all.

Sorry. I got back home a few hours ago (for few days anyway) and I think
I already know what the issue is. I'll send a fix to try in a few
minutes, was just trying to collect all the reported-by etc.

There's clearly a separate bug in the init failure path, but the reason
it fails in the first place is a mismatch between different changes.

johannes