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backport-iwlwifi-dkms package

failed to build against linux-unstable=6.0.0-2.2: efivar headers moved

Bug #1987048 reported by You-Sheng Yang on 2022-08-19

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	backport-iwlwifi-dkms (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

In kernel version v6.0-rc1 commit https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2d82e6227ea189c0589e7383a36616ac2a2d248c ("efi: vars: Move efivar caching layer into efivarfs"), efivar_entry_* APIs have been moved into fs/efivarfs/internal.h, and the iwlwifi part has been fixed with https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0c4bad7f47c4e5ff82c82fbdd4f4ab3105b98fc9 ("iwlwifi: Switch to proper EFI variable store interface"). The corresponding API calls in the fix, e.g. efi_rt_services_supported, have been available since v5.7.

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You-Sheng Yang (vicamo) wrote on 2022-08-19:

There is no fix in backport-iwlwifi upstream yet. Neither does linux-backports.

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You-Sheng Yang (vicamo) wrote on 2022-08-19:

backport-iwlwifi-dkms_9904-0ubuntu1.debdiff Edit (146.3 KiB, text/plain)

Build verified against:
* linux/jammy version 5.15.0-47-generic
* linux-oem-5.17/jammy version 5.17.0-1015-oem
* linux/kinetic version 5.19.0-15-generic
* linux-unstable/kinetic version 6.0.0-2-generic

PPA: https://launchpad.net/~vicamo/+archive/ubuntu/ppa-1987048

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You-Sheng Yang (vicamo) wrote on 2022-08-19:

Need upload sponsoring.

Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) on 2022-08-23

Changed in backport-iwlwifi-dkms (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Fix Committed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2022-08-23:

This bug was fixed in the package backport-iwlwifi-dkms - 9904-0ubuntu1

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backport-iwlwifi-dkms (9904-0ubuntu1) kinetic; urgency=low

  [ You-Sheng Yang ]
  * New release
    - upstream version 9904 commit 0e43e07a9c3762.
    - debian: refresh patches

  [You-Sheng Yang]
  * Fix build against kernel >= 6.x (LP: #1987048)
    - make: allow kernel >= 6.x
    - iwlwifi: Switch to proper EFI variable store interface

[ Dimitri John Ledkov ]
* Bump OBSOLETED_BY to v6.1.0

-- You-Sheng Yang <email address hidden> Fri, 19 Aug 2022 12:36:00 +0800