Bug#856505: Bug#911443: linux-image-4.18.0-2-arm64: wlan0 no longer present
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On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 12:15:35AM +0100, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
> > > >> And could we have the patch I sent on #856505 to enable sound on this
> > > >> machines applied as well?
> > >
> > > i assume you are talking about:
> > >
> > > arm: bcm2835-audio: Document the device tree node to enable
> > > bcm2835-audio driver
> > >
> > > This patch will not be accepted. For a explanation please refer to:
> > >
> > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/16/1615
> > >
> > > The proper solution is called:
> > >
> > > staging: bcm2835-audio: Drop DT dependency
> > >
> > > and is in linux-next since a week.
>
> I've been playing with those patches for a while on 4.19, but those patches
> won't work on their own, they depend on some other stuff that has been
> commited as well. All that would mean a lot of changes.
>
> So, it seems that 4.21 will have a solution for this through a lot of
> changes and updates on the drivers, ...
>
> But, if we are going to go with 4.19 I believe that the simple change I was
> proposing which works as expected is going to give us audio on the pi and
> only affects the pi, is a clean solution that would solve the problem.
>
> I don't see the problem on applying this patch on Debian while upstream
> evolves the drivers even more on 4.21 and next versions, all we do is enable
> what is available on 4.19 like it was coded.
>
> Any chance for this to happen?
What is the status of this bug? has the issue been fixed upstream?
Does it happen still with a recent kernel from unstable or
buster-backports?
Regards,
Salvatore
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