Hi Greg, I have no personal issues against upgrading to a newer kernel myself. The reason I am working with the 4.4 kernel is that it is the supported kernel from my distro's stable release (slackware). Unfortunately slackware's stable release is several years old and consequently based on the older 4.4 LTS kernel branch.
The result of the distro packaging this older kernel is multiple users reporting this bug to the slackware community so I came to the kernel maintainers to see if this can be fixed upstream. I could also advocate for the slackware maintainer to apply the patch to his releases if you think that's a better route to take.
For the record, the patch that Willy offered does fix the issue on my affected system. That might be a better choice than my request to revert as per the original email.
Please let me know what you decide.
Thanks,
Bob Funk
On 11/23/19 3:27 AM, Greg KH wrote:
On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 08:33:46PM -0600, Bob Funk wrote:
Hello,
I am contacting the stable branch maintainers with a bug report concerning the asus-wmi kernel driver in the 4.4 kernel branch. I had initially contacted maintainers for the specific driver and received a response stating that I should contact the stable branch maintainers about the issue instead. Their opinion was that the patch in question should be reverted rather than debugged. I will append my initial report here and let you decide what to do with the bug.
Any reason you can not just use 5.3 or newer for this hardware? Why are you stuck on 4.4?
thanks,
greg k-h