Return-path: Received: from mga11.intel.com ([192.55.52.93]:7198 "EHLO mga11.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750765AbbJRSjC convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Oct 2015 14:39:02 -0400 From: "Grumbach, Emmanuel" To: Ben Hutchings , "Berg, Johannes" CC: Intel Linux Wireless , linux-wireless , "linux-firmware@kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] iwlwifi: Fix module firmware information for 3160 Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 18:38:58 +0000 Message-ID: <0BA3FCBA62E2DC44AF3030971E174FB32E8A5AFF@hasmsx107.ger.corp.intel.com> (sfid-20151018_203907_162765_AA72EF1D) References: <1445190425.31451.70.camel@decadent.org.uk> <1445193191.31451.79.camel@decadent.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, On 10/18/2015 09:33 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2015-10-18 at 18:47 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> IWL3160_UCODE_API_OK is no longer defined, so we end up with this >> in the module information: >> >> firmware: iwlwifi-3160-IWL3160_UCODE_API_OK.ucode >> >> It looks like IWL7260_UCODE_API_OK should be used instead now. > [...] > > Somewhat relatedly, I noticed that iwlwifi is now requesting firmware > files that aren't yet in linux-firmware.git. Please can you submit > them for inclusion? > This is a good point but the firmware filename is now changing too rapidly (every 6 weeks) to include all of them into linux-firmware.git. So we chose the firmware version that are the most stable and that correspond to a certain kernel. E.g. I won't upstream -16.ucode since 4.2 can handle 15 and 4.3 can already handle 17. That's the compromise we found. Note that all the firmware versions are available in our linux-firmware.git clone. Right now, I am waiting for -17.ucode to stabilize before upstreaming it.