Hi Stefan,
* Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 05:41:43PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> > On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 05:02:28PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> > > This has been attempted before, but had to backed out because in some
> > > cases firmware was failing to decrypt a subset of received frames, which
> > > resulted in packet loss.
> > >
> > > That was before we updated all iwm(4) devices to newer firmware in the
> > > previous release cycle. I hope we won't see such problems again now.
> > >
> > > Please help out with getting this tested on the many iwm(4) variants:
> > > 7260, 7265, 3160, 3165, 3168, 8260, 8265, 9260, and 9560.
> >
> > Turns out that my initial testing was insufficient. Sorry about that.
> >
> > My previous patch, which was based on code code written against older
> > firmware, did not work on some devices. I missed that some newer firmware
> > versions we use nowadays have different hardware encryption APIs.
> >
> > This new version has been tested by me on 7265, 8260, and 9260.
> > It seems to work fine on those devices.
> >
> > Could someone test on any of the other devices?
> >
> > ok?
>
> Sorry, that diff was generated against the wrong base and contained unrelated
> stuff.
I have your diff running since yesterday and noticed no regression.
iwm0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 8265" rev 0x78, msi
iwm0: hw rev 0x230, fw ver 34.0.1
Cheers
Matthias
