On 12-03-13 12:24 PM, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Paul Gortmaker <[email protected]> writes: > >> From: "Fry, Donald H" <[email protected]> >> >> ------------------- >> 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 <[email protected]> >> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <[email protected]> >> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <[email protected]> >> --- >> 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. -- > > > commit 2a96ae707525ef00a85bf374e56f0219c07eac5a > Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> > Cc: Gordon Malm <[email protected]> > Cc: Don Fry <[email protected]> > Cc: Wey-Yi Guy <[email protected]> > Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> > > > > > Bjørn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
