This is a heads-up regarding kernel configuration for 3.15. Selecting the
configuration option CONFIG_RTL8723AU_P2P leads to crashes with some, but not
all, of the RTL8723AU devices. This hardware is fairly rare, and there may not
me any openSUSE users with it, but why take a chance.
All of the CONFIG_RTL8723AU_P2P code has been removed in 3.16 and replaced by
cfg80211 ioctls, thus not having P2P functionality is only temporary.
Thanks,
Larry
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RTL8723AU options in
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.15-utopic/
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 17:42:20 +0200
From: Jes Sorensen
To: andy.whitcroft@canonical.com
CC: timg@canonical.com, Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net, Clinton Sprain
, achiang@canonical.com
Hi,
Alex Chiang was kind enough to point the finger at you guys :)
I received an OOPS report on the kernel here:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.15-utopic/
It is related to the rtl8723au staging driver which I am currently in
the process of bashing to pieces. Looking at the crash report it looks
like it is happening in some P2P code which is enabled with
CONFIG_RTL8723AU_P2P.
We ripped out all the CONFIG_RTL8723AU_P2P code completely for 3.16 as
it's completely broken and it should be handled outside of the driver
anyway.
As such, I wanted to request you disble this config option in your next
build? It should avoid users experiencing crashes unnecessarily and all
of us receiving bug reports over it :)
Cheers,
Jes
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