From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: reinette chatre <reinette.chatre@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <holtmann@linux.intel.com>,
Tomas Winkler <tomasw@gmail.com>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: New iwlwifi 3945 uCode available
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:07:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081022100758.GA27595@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1224628088.10863.100.camel@rc-desk>
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 03:28:08PM -0700, reinette chatre wrote:
> I do not believe our request is unreasonable. If a user runs a new
> kernel the log will print a message that the firmware is incorrect ...
> all the user needs to do is go to
> http://intellinuxwireless.org/?n=Downloads and download the latest
> firmware. This does not require any subtle changes that may affect other
> aspects of the system ... just the firmware file that is only used by
> the driver.
with the wireless that doesn't work. Nice. Sorry guys, but requiring
a new firmware version for a new driver release is completely
unreasonable. You can drop support for older firmware ABIs after a few
years, but not immediately.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-22 10:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-21 18:27 New iwlwifi 3945 uCode available reinette chatre
2008-10-21 21:25 ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-21 21:33 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-10-21 21:34 ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-21 21:38 ` John W. Linville
2008-10-21 21:53 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-10-21 22:13 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-10-21 22:23 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-10-21 23:01 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-10-21 23:09 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-21 23:11 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-10-21 23:27 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-21 23:31 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-10-21 23:34 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-21 22:28 ` reinette chatre
2008-10-21 23:06 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-10-21 23:34 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-10-22 1:03 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-10-22 7:27 ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-22 7:56 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-10-22 7:57 ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-22 20:30 ` reinette chatre
2008-10-22 22:59 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-10-22 23:14 ` reinette chatre
2008-10-22 23:39 ` John W. Linville
2008-10-23 1:12 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-10-23 7:22 ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-22 9:10 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-10-22 9:14 ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-22 9:23 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-10-22 10:07 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-10-22 12:28 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-10-22 18:25 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-10-24 12:45 ` Florian Mickler
2008-10-21 21:59 ` reinette chatre
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2009-04-28 20:52 new " reinette chatre
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