On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 03:13:18PM -0300, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:
> The patch ("iwlagn: Support new 5000 microcode") shoudn't have been
> applied on 2.6.32 and 2.6.33 stable trees, it doesn't support new
> firmware file format, thus if the new firmware is on the disk, loading
> fails, as reported on:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/796336
>
> Support for the iwlagn new firmware file format was only added beginning
> with 2.6.35 (commit "iwlagn: implement loading a new firmware file
> type"), so iwlagn works with new firmware only with 2.6.35 or later.
Can I get an ack from the developer of the patch and the people involved
with it first? It was asked to be backported for a reason, so I would
at least like to get the people who asked for the backport to have a
chance to respond please.
It's only nice, why would you exclude them?
greg k-h
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