netdev - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.13 152/189] iwlwifi: mvm: support LONG_GROUP for WOWLAN_GET

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Message-ID: <d1ee65748d6ee788c1f882b2f73dddaf7eb191e6.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date:   Tue, 06 Jul 2021 16:09:10 +0200
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com>,
        Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@...el.com>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.13 152/189] iwlwifi: mvm: support LONG_GROUP
 for WOWLAN_GET_STATUSES version

On Tue, 2021-07-06 at 07:13 -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com>
> 
> [ Upstream commit d65ab7c0e0b92056754185d3f6925d7318730e94 ]
> 
> It's been a while that the firmware uses LONG_GROUP by default
> and not LEGACY_GROUP.
> Until now the firmware wrongly advertise the WOWLAN_GET_STATUS
> command's version with LEGACY_GROUP, but it is now being fixed.

"Being fixed" here is the key - this will affect only firmware versions
that the older drivers in stable won't load. No need to backport this.

johannes