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backport-iwlwifi-dkms package

backport-iwlwifi-dkms fails to build on lunar with 6.1 kernel

Bug #2003808 reported by Andrea Righi
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
backport-iwlwifi-dkms (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Andrea Righi
Lunar
Fix Released
Medium
Andrea Righi

Bug Description

[Impact]

backport-iwlwifi-dkms is considered obsolete with kernel >= 5.19, however we may still want to support it and avoid build failures, in case it's actually needed by oem/hwe kernels.

[Test case]

$ sudo apt install backport-iwlwifi-dkms

[Fix]

Apply a patch to support the new 6.1 ABI.

[Regression potential]

We may still get failures if we try to install this dkms in kernels >= 5.19, because it's explicitly declared as obsolete (in dkms.conf), but the following fix will still allow to build the module without errors also in recent kernels. Older kernels are unaffected.

Tags: patch
Revision history for this message
Andrea Righi (arighi) wrote :

debdiff in attach allows to build this module with a 6.1 kernel

Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)
tags: added: patch
Alberto Milone (albertomilone)
Changed in backport-iwlwifi-dkms (Ubuntu Lunar):
assignee: nobody → Andrea Righi (arighi)
status: New → In Progress
importance: Undecided → Medium
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package backport-iwlwifi-dkms - 9904-0ubuntu3.2

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backport-iwlwifi-dkms (9904-0ubuntu3.2) lunar; urgency=medium

  * Support linux 6.1 (LP: #2003808):
    - d/p/0020-support-linux-6.1.patch

 -- Andrea Righi <email address hidden> Tue, 24 Jan 2023 17:15:13 +0000

Changed in backport-iwlwifi-dkms (Ubuntu Lunar):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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