Re: [PATCH 3/3] iwlwifi: Load firmware exclusively for Intel WiFi

From: Emmanuel Grumbach <egrumbach@gmail.com>
To: "João Paulo Rechi Vita" <jprvita@gmail.com>
Cc: "Marcel Holtmann" <marcel@holtmann.org>,
	"Kai-Heng Feng" <kai.heng.feng@canonical.com>,
	"Luca Coelho" <luciano.coelho@intel.com>,
	"Kalle Valo" <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
	"Emmanuel Grumbach" <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>,
	"Johannes Berg" <johannes.berg@intel.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"Intel Linux Wireless" <linuxwifi@intel.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Network Development" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Linux Upstreaming Team" <linux@endlessm.com>,
	"João Paulo Rechi Vita" <jprvita@endlessm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] iwlwifi: Load firmware exclusively for Intel WiFi
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2019 20:39:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANUX_P27VP_Vy+omnO2CAGvntZNF6vowrFEHrAfeSgPrFJFdsg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+A7VXXarPAb+vFNTqZDhpng_niLjSCxqEQdLLV9eGAn+PPUXQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

> > > >
> > > > our hardware teams from the Bluetooth and WiFi side really need to look at this.
> >
> > Were you able to get attention from the hardware teams with the logs
> > I've provided? Are there any news or an idea of when / if we can
> > expect this to be fixed in firmware? If not, do you have suggestions
> > for an alternative solution?
> >
>
> Sorry to bother you again with this, but I'd really like to figure out
> some way forward here. Did you get any feedback from the hardware
> teams? Otherwise, I understand having an inter-dependency between the
> wifi and bt kernel modules is not desirable, so do you have any
> suggestion on how to solve this without adding this dependency?
>

Have you tried the update the BT firmware with what is now available in
mainline linux-firmware.git?
I heard that this problem has now been resolved. After you update the
BT firmware, you need a full power cycle.