On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 11:10 AM, Luca Coelho <l...@coelho.fi> wrote: > On Tue, 2017-11-21 at 10:30 +0100, Sedat Dilek wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Luca Coelho <l...@coelho.fi> wrote: >> [..] >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------- >> > iwlwifi: first set of fixes for 4.15 >> > >> > * Support new FW API version of scan cmd (used in FW version 34); >> >> While seeing this... >> I have here a iwlwifi-8265 hardware and have seen a recently uploaded >> FW-version 34 in iwlwifi-firmware Git. >> Can you explain the dependence of iwlwifi firmware-version / Linux >> kernel-release and especially probing? >> Currently, I am using Linux v4.14 from Debian/experimental. > > Mostly for backwards-compatibility, the driver is able to work with a > range of firmware versions. It only uses one of them at a time (i.e. > the highest supported version it finds). > > The driver in v4.14 support version 34 and below. So it starts looking > for that one and, if not found, falls back to the next lower version > (i.e. 33) and so on, until it finds one. >
Isn't Linux v4.14.3 (here: -rc1) minimum to completely support new features in v34 firmware? "iwlwifi: mvm: support version 7 of the SCAN_REQ_UMAC FW command" commit dac4df1c5f2c34903f61b1bc4fc722e31b4199e7 upstream. - Sedat - [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git/commit/?h=linux-4.14.y&id=930929379cc8f92275675fb27e572c4d539f6b8a
