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From:   Ian W MORRISON <ianwmorrison@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 11 Apr 2018 23:04:06 +1000
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Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH 1/1] drm/i915/glk: Add MODULE_FIRMWARE for Geminilake
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On 11 April 2018 at 22:27, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2018, Ian W MORRISON <ianwmorrison@gmail.com> wrote:
>> <snip>
>>
>>>
>>> NAK on indiscriminate Cc: stable. There are zero guarantees that older
>>> kernels will work with whatever firmware you throw at them.
>>>
>>
>> I included 'Cc: stable' so the patch would get added to the v4.16 and
>> v4.15 kernels which I have tested with the patch. I found that earlier
>> kernels didn't support the 'linux-firmware' package required to get
>> wifi working on Intel's new Gemini Lake NUC.
>
> You realize that this patch should have nothing to do with wifi?
>

Yes. Runtime power management depends on the patch but when distros
such as Ubuntu are installed on a Intel Gemini Lake NUC as an example,
wifi/bluetooth depends on Intel Wireless-AC 9462 which in turn depends
on v4.15 as a minimum so my logic was to add the patch to 4.15 and later.

> Rodrigo, Anusha, if you think Cc: stable is appropriate, please indicate
> the specific versions of stable it is appropriate for.
>

Thanks you..

Best regards,
Ian