I just rolled back a Linux kernel and configured grub to boot to it - headless - and now I think I know what it must feel like to land a breakdancing cyborg on the moon that I built out of scrap metal and medical waste. #linux #r8169

They joys of bugs in hardware or firmware[1]:

A user reported updating to #Linux #kernel 6.4.y broke #iwlwifi on a Intel 3165 NIC. Bisection identified 5fc3f6c90cc ("r8169: consolidate disabling ASPM before EPHY access") as culprit.

Turns out it was not a faulty bisection, as it seems enabling #ASPM on some #Realtek chips supported by #r8169 can harm other PCI devices. 🥴 🤨

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217635#c27

[1] or maybe it one day turns out that this is caused by a bug somewhere in the #LinuxKernel