Linux 6.19-rc1 mediatek mt7921e broke badly

[Shuah Khan]

On 12/30/25 18:57, Eric Biggers wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2025 at 05:27:13PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Tue, 30 Dec 2025 at 15:57, Shuah Khan <skhan at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> I would recommend reverting f804a5895eba instead of trying
>>> fix it. Then find a better way to eliminate extra newline that
>>> shows up in dmesg when firmware build date happens to have
>>> a newline.
>>
>> Yeah. Let's revert it.
>>
>> And the way to fix the extra newline is trivial: just remove it from
>> the "dev_info()" format string.
>>
>> Our kernel printing logic will add a newline for the next line anyway
>> if it is missing (unless somebody explicitly uses PR_CONT).
>>
>> Can whoever saw the problem confirm that just a revert and a "remove
>> \n from that dev_info()" fixes the output for them?
> 
> That works for me.  The revert by itself makes the FORTIFY_SOURCE crash
> go away and reintroduces a blank line in the log.  Removing the \n from
> the string passed to dev_info as well makes the blank line go away.
> 

I just sent the revert. I will try removing \n from dev_info()
later on tomorrow.

My quick trial still showed extra line which didn't make sense
to me. More trials have to wait for tomorrow.

thanks,
-- Shuah