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From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: "Guy, Wey-Yi" <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: updated iwlwifi 5000 uCode available
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:11:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110420201124.GF2737@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110420182254.GE2737@tuxdriver.com>

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).

-- 
John W. Linville		Someday the world will need a hero, and you
linville@tuxdriver.com			might be all we have.  Be ready.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-20 20:15 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 [this message]
2011-04-20 20:17     ` wwguy
2011-04-21  0:16       ` John W. Linville
2011-04-21 14:09         ` wwguy

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