Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760114Ab1D0WgJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:36:09 -0400 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:12778 "EHLO mga01.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757073Ab1D0WgH (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:36:07 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.64,276,1301900400"; d="scan'208";a="915323028" Subject: Re: [PATCH] [96/106] iwlagn: Support new 5000 microcode. From: wwguy To: Andi Kleen Cc: "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" , "tim.gardner@canonical.com" , Andi Kleen , "Fry, Donald H" , "sgruszka@redhat.com" , "gregkh@suse.de" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "stable@kernel.org" , "tim.bird@am.sony.com" In-Reply-To: <4DB896B5.7090506@linux.intel.com> References: <20110426212.641772347@firstfloor.org> <20110426211418.AF9B93E1886@tassilo.jf.intel.com> <4DB85596.4070105@canonical.com> <38255.1303937247@localhost> <4DB896B5.7090506@linux.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:32:58 -0700 Message-ID: <1303943578.22777.32.camel@wwguy-ubuntu> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1052 Lines: 31 Hi Andi, On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 15:20 -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > > I can't speak to Ubuntu, but I hit this on Fedora Rawhide a while ago, they > > ended including several versions so different kernels would work OK: > > > > % rpm -ql iwl5000-firmware > > /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode > > /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode > > /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode > > I don't want people require to install new firmware for .35. This sounds > like I should > drop this patch. Wey-yi? > iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode is target to fix a 11n related issue we seen in the field (especially for Ubuntu), so it is important for people to use -5 version of uCode. in order to allow driver to pick up the correct uCode (-5), we need to move the maximum API version to "5" which is what this patch does Thanks Wey -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/