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Subject: Re: Missing iwlwifi firmwares ?
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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On Sun, 2012-04-22 at 00:44 +0300, Thomas Backlund wrote:

> When reviewing our firmware packages I noticed a few missing iwlwifi
> firmwares according to kernel-3,3,1

> [...]
> firmware:       iwlwifi-6000g2a-6.ucode
> firmware:       iwlwifi-100-6.ucode
> firmware:       iwlwifi-1000-6.ucode
> [...]
> 
> Theese three are missing from:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git;a=summary
> 
> http://intellinuxwireless.org/?n=Downloads
> 
> 
> The API 5 ucodes are awailable, but the driver expect API 6...
> 
> So..., when will they be available ?

We don't really know, but it was really just due to a bug in the driver,
it should use MODULE_FIRMWARE with the latest released rather than the
latest testing version -- there's a patch in our queue to fix that.

johannes