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From:   Emmanuel Grumbach <egrumbach@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 9 Dec 2020 22:32:20 +0200
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Subject: Re: [BUG] iwlwifi: card unusable after firmware crash
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc:     "Coelho, Luciano" <luciano.coelho@intel.com>,
        Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra@gmail.com>,
        "Goodstein, Mordechay" <mordechay.goodstein@intel.com>,
        "Berg, Johannes" <johannes.berg@intel.com>,
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On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 7:19 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 23:17:48 +0000 Rui Salvaterra wrote:
> > Hi, Luca,
> >
> > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 at 16:27, Coelho, Luciano <luciano.coelho@intel.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2020-12-08 at 11:27 +0000, Rui Salvaterra wrote:
> > > >
> > > > [ 3174.003910] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: RF_KILL bit toggled to disable radio.
> > > > [ 3174.003913] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: reporting RF_KILL (radio disabled)
> > >
> > > It looks like your machine is reporting RF-Kill to the WiFi device.
> >
> > Yes, that's an artifact of how I tested: I rebooted the router, the
> > Wi-Fi interface disassociated and the dmesg was clean. However, after
> > the router came up, the laptop didn't reconnect (and the connection
> > had completely disappeared from nmtui). Afterwards, I did the rfkill
> > cycle you see, and only then I got the register dump.
> >
> > > There seems to be some sort of race there that is causing us to still
> > > try to communicate with the device (and thus you see the transaction
> > > failed dump), but that will obviously fail when RF-Kill is enabled.
> >
> > I'm not sure about that, the card was already dead before the rfkill cycle.
>
> Any luck figuring this out, Luca? If this is a 5.10 regression we need
> to let Linus know tomorrow, so the time is ticking :(

Rui, I looked at the register dump and looks like you're using AMT on
your system?
Can you confirm?