On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12/15/2016 12:01 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 5:37 AM, Hans de Goede <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I stumbled over this while looking into something completely different,
>>> according to:
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172411
>>>
>>> As this point in time it is better to not enable
>>> CONFIG_IWLWIFI_PCIE_RTPM, as it cause wifi disconnects
>>> on some platforms.
>>
>> There's no indication in the code that it's broken or unsafe to
>> enable.  Seems like a patch making it depend on config BROKEN or
>> config EXPERT or at least some kind of warning in the help text is
>> warranted.
>
>
> It's pretty clear from comment 7 in that upstream report that upstream does
> not deem it safe to have this option enabled at this point...

Yes, in the bug report.  My reply you quoted said "... in the
code...".  My point was, if upstream considered this unsafe they
should have indicated it in the code to begin with.  That way people
don't turn it on before they consider it ready.

josh
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