Subject: Making Intel WiFi Link 1000 usable in 2.6.31
From: reinette chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
To: stable@kernel.org
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:34:19 -0700
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Hi,

A few distributions would like to enable the new 1000 series Intel
wireless hardware (Intel WiFi Link 1000BGN) in their next releases that
are based on 2.6.31. This hardware is not usable in 2.6.31, but it can
be enabled in this kernel with the addition of five patches.

Until now we have been providing the distributions with this list of
patches to do their own backporting. 

Since this seems to be a general problem for distributions and users
alike, is it possible to consider these enabling patches for inclusion
into 2.6.31?

Here is the list:

commit cc0f555d511a5fe9d4519334c8f674a1dbab9e3a
Author: Jay Sternberg <jay.e.sternberg@intel.com>
Date:   Fri Jul 17 09:30:16 2009 -0700

    iwlwifi: Handle new firmware file with ucode build number in header

commit cce53aa347c1e023d967b1cb1aa393c725aedba5
Author: Jay Sternberg <jay.e.sternberg@intel.com>
Date:   Fri Jul 17 09:30:22 2009 -0700

    iwlwifi: update 1000 series API version to match firmware

commit 02c06e4abc0680afd31bf481a803541556757fb6
Author: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Date:   Fri Jul 17 09:30:14 2009 -0700

    iwlagn: modify digital SVR for 1000

commit 415e49936b4b29b34c2fb561eeab867d41fc43a6
Author: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Date:   Thu Aug 13 13:30:54 2009 -0700

    iwlwifi: traverse linklist to find the valid OTP block

commit f7ea097d9b4e61a816c041c92548aad7c7ed7915
Author: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Date:   Fri Jul 24 11:13:12 2009 -0700

    iwlagn: fix null pointer access during ucode load on 1000

Thank you very much

Reinette