linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [64/99] Revert "iwlagn: Support new 5000 microcode."

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Message-ID: <20110728173241.GJ8006@one.firstfloor.org>
Date:	Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:32:41 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, gregkh@...e.de,
	herton.krzesinski@...onical.com, gengor@...too.org,
	donald.h.fry@...el.com, wey-yi.w.guy@...el.com, ak@...ux.intel.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org,
	tim.bird@...sony.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [64/99] Revert "iwlagn: Support new 5000 microcode."

> commit dd7a2509b3a79b290730a9c6a784bf03fedabb9a
> Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
> Date:   Wed Apr 28 23:33:10 2010 -0700
> 
>     iwlagn: implement loading a new firmware file type
> 
> > This was reported by Gentoo, Arch, and Canonical developers as causing
> > problems for their users:
> > 	https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24302
> This is a bug about 2.6.32.
> 
> > 	http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359445
> This looks like problem when only 8.83.5 (v5) firmware is available
> on the system, but kernel is old and support only v2 version. This
> should be solved by providing both old 8.24.2 (v2) and new 8.83.5 (v5)
> firmware blobs in one package.
> 
> > 	https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/796336
> Also 2.6.32 case.

I took them from .32. Should I drop them?

> 
> There could be reasons for this change, but I do not see them here.

Can you please clearly indicate which patches I should drop and which keep?

Thanks,
-Andi
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