Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760129Ab1D0Wla (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:41:30 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:56561 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758523Ab1D0Wl3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:41:29 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:41:25 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: wwguy Cc: Andi Kleen , "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" Subject: Re: [PATCH] [96/106] iwlagn: Support new 5000 microcode. Message-ID: <20110427224125.GR16484@one.firstfloor.org> References: <20110426212.641772347@firstfloor.org> <20110426211418.AF9B93E1886@tassilo.jf.intel.com> <4DB85596.4070105@canonical.com> <38255.1303937247@localhost> <4DB896B5.7090506@linux.intel.com> <1303943578.22777.32.camel@wwguy-ubuntu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1303943578.22777.32.camel@wwguy-ubuntu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 877 Lines: 19 > 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 But this means that anyone who just updates the kernel without having the new firmware will lose their wireless. Not good. longterm is not supposed to break existing userland like this Possible would be a patch to try 5 first and then fall back to the older version. But that's not what this patch does, correct? -Andi -- 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/