From: wwguy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: updated iwlwifi 5000 uCode available
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:17:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1303330625.31956.1.camel@wwguy-ubuntu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110420201124.GF2737@tuxdriver.com>
On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 13:11 -0700, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 02:22:54PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 09:24:56AM -0700, Guy, Wey-Yi wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Due to a packaging error, we've re-released the 5000 uCode version
> > > 8.83.5.1.
> > >
> > > The updated version of firmware is available for download from
> > > http://intellinuxwireless.org/?n=Downloads
> > >
> > > The old, wrongly packaged version has the following sha1sums:
> > >
> > > bff3bfce6a31ad94be32b4c204ff8819b0cd03fd
> > > iwlwifi-5000-ucode-8.83.5.1.tgz
> > > 8d94177b509be3fb653ce8ba0c633244e4abf5f3
> > > iwlwifi-5000-ucode-8.83.5.1/iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode
> >
> > The version I get from:
> >
> > wget http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/iwlwifi/downloads/iwlwifi-5000-ucode-8.83.5.1.tgz
> >
> > matches the sha1sum values listed above for the "wrongly packaged" version.
> >
> > > The new version these:
> > > e70cc4b2249824a6b17ce9b9ae5087942c762213
> > > iwlwifi-5000-ucode-8.83.5.1.tgz
> > > 22bf6093ed8204027cc3207c739d2cab9cc92ea3
> > > iwlwifi-5000-ucode-8.83.5.1/iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode
> > >
> > > The only change is removing the advertising for multiple interface
> > > support which is not actually present in this microcode.
> > >
> > > Wey-Yi
> >
> > So, you are going to release a different version of the file but
> > with the _same_ release number? Couldn't you at least name it
> > iwlwifi-5000-ucode-8.83.5.1-1.tgz or something?
>
> BTW, this name suggestions sucks... 8.83.5.1.1 or 8.83.5.2 would be
> better for packaging purposes (at least for RPM).
>
this is really not an official build, so the build# stay the same. I am
ok to rename to anything, but the internal build# will not changed.
Wey
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-20 20:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-20 16:24 updated iwlwifi 5000 uCode available Guy, Wey-Yi
2011-04-20 18:22 ` John W. Linville
2011-04-20 18:23 ` Guy, Wey-Yi
2011-04-20 19:04 ` Johannes Berg
2011-04-20 20:11 ` John W. Linville
2011-04-20 20:17 ` wwguy [this message]
2011-04-21 0:16 ` John W. Linville
2011-04-21 14:09 ` wwguy
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