Re: [34-longterm 098/196] iwlagn: Support new 5000 microcode.
From: Paul Gortmaker
Date: Tue Mar 13 2012 - 12:56:30 EST
On 12-03-13 12:24 PM, BjÃrn Mork wrote:
> Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> From: "Fry, Donald H" <donald.h.fry@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> -------------------
>> This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release.
>> If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.
>> -------------------
>>
>> commit 41504cce240f791f1e16561db95728c5537fbad9 upstream.
>>
>> New iwlwifi-5000 microcode requires driver support for API version 5.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Don Fry <donald.h.fry@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-5000.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-5000.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-5000.c
>> index d05fad4..dc191b8 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-5000.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-5000.c
>> @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
>> #include "iwl-6000-hw.h"
>>
>> /* Highest firmware API version supported */
>> -#define IWL5000_UCODE_API_MAX 2
>> +#define IWL5000_UCODE_API_MAX 5
>> #define IWL5150_UCODE_API_MAX 2
>
> This looks like the patch which broke the driver in stable-2.6.32.y and
> was later reverted by:
Thanks for the heads up. I'll be sure to drop this.
Paul.
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>
>
> commit 2a96ae707525ef00a85bf374e56f0219c07eac5a
> Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed Jun 15 13:12:35 2011 -0700
>
> Revert "iwlagn: Support new 5000 microcode."
>
> This reverts commit 6f63415fc1b690cb50c2ad48ba6e9e6e88e271b4.
>
> It turns out this is not what we want to have happen for the .32 and
> .33-longterm kernels as it does not work properly at all.
>
> This was reported by Gentoo, Arch, and Canonical developers as causing
> problems for their users:
> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24302
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359445
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/796336
>
> Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Gordon Malm <gengor@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Don Fry <donald.h.fry@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
>
>
>
>
> BjÃrn
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