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

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Date:	Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:24:26 +0200
From:	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	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."

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 02:49:03PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 2.6.35-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> ------------------
> 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.

Hmm, it does not work on .32 and .33 because they do not contain
the commit (which 2.6.35 has):

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.

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

Stanislaw
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