From: "Guy, Wey-Yi" <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
To: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
"gregkh@suse.de" <gregkh@suse.de>,
"herton.krzesinski@canonical.com"
<herton.krzesinski@canonical.com>,
"gengor@gentoo.org" <gengor@gentoo.org>,
"Fry, Donald H" <donald.h.fry@intel.com>,
"ak@linux.intel.com" <ak@linux.intel.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"stable@kernel.org" <stable@kernel.org>,
"tim.bird@am.sony.com" <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [64/99] Revert "iwlagn: Support new 5000 microcode."
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 06:45:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1311860733.5579.152.camel@wwguy-huron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110728082425.GA2207@redhat.com>
On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 01:24 -0700, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> 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@intel.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.
>
The -5 version of firmware has addition TLV information in the firmware
file which provide the firmware capabilities to the driver. it is
important feature starting from -5 version of firmware; and it require
driver to parsing the new file type.
just like Gruszka mention, please include
commit dd7a2509b3a79b290730a9c6a784bf03fedabb9a
Thanks
Wey
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2011-07-27 21:47 [PATCH] [0/99] 2.6.35.14 longterm review Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:47 ` [PATCH] [1/99] x86, amd: Do not enable ARAT feature on AMD processors below Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [2/99] x86, amd: Use _safe() msr access for GartTlbWlk disable code Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [3/99] rcu: Fix unpaired rcu_irq_enter() from locking selftests Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [4/99] staging: usbip: fix wrong endian conversion Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [5/99] Fix for buffer overflow in ldm_frag_add not sufficient Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [6/99] seqlock: Don't smp_rmb in seqlock reader spin loop Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [7/99] ALSA: HDA: Use one dmic only for Dell Studio 1558 Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [8/99] ASoC: Ensure output PGA is enabled for line outputs in Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [9/99] ASoC: Add some missing volume update bit sets for wm_hubs Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [10/99] mm/page_alloc.c: prevent unending loop in Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [11/99] loop: limit 'max_part' module param to DISK_MAX_PARTS Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [12/99] loop: handle on-demand devices correctly Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [13/99] USB: CP210x Add 4 Device IDs for AC-Services Devices Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [14/99] USB: moto_modem: Add USB identifier for the Motorola VE240 Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [15/99] USB: serial: ftdi_sio: adding support for TavIR STK500 Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [16/99] USB: gamin_gps: Fix for data transfer problems in native Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [17/99] usb/gadget: at91sam9g20 fix end point max packet size Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [18/99] usb: gadget: rndis: don't test against req->length Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [19/99] xhci: Fix full speed bInterval encoding Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [20/99] OHCI: work around for nVidia shutdown problem Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [21/99] OHCI: fix regression caused by nVidia shutdown workaround Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [22/99] p54usb: add zoom 4410 usbid Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [23/99] eCryptfs: Allow 2 scatterlist entries for encrypted Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [24/99] UBIFS: fix a rare memory leak in ro to rw remounting path Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [25/99] i8k: Avoid lahf in 64-bit code Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [26/99] cpuidle: menu: fixed wrapping timers at 4.294 seconds Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [27/99] dm table: reject devices without request fns Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [28/99] atm: expose ATM device index in sysfs Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [29/99] brd: limit 'max_part' module param to DISK_MAX_PARTS Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [30/99] brd: handle on-demand devices correctly Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [31/99] SUNRPC: Deal with the lack of a SYN_SENT sk->sk_state_change Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [32/99] PCI: Add quirk for setting valid class for TI816X Endpoint Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [33/99] xen mmu: fix a race window causing leave_mm BUG() Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [34/99] UBIFS: fix shrinker object count reports Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [35/99] UBIFS: fix memory leak on error path Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [36/99] nbd: limit module parameters to a sane value Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [37/99] block: export blk_{get,put}_queue() Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [38/99] Fix oops caused by queue refcounting failure Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [39/99] mm: fix ENOSPC returned by handle_mm_fault() Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [40/99] PCI: Set PCIE maxpayload for card during hotplug insertion Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [41/99] nl80211: fix check for valid SSID size in scan operations Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [42/99] lockdep: Fix lock_is_held() on recursion Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [43/99] drm/i915: Add a no lvds quirk for the Asus EeeBox PC EB1007 Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [44/99] drm/radeon/kms: fix for radeon on systems >4GB without Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [45/99] fat: Fix corrupt inode flags when remove ATTR_SYS flag Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [46/99] xen: off by one errors in multicalls.c Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [47/99] x86/amd-iommu: Fix 3 possible endless loops Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [48/99] USB: cdc-acm: Adding second ACM channel support for Nokia E7 Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [49/99] USB: core: Tolerate protocol stall during hub and port Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [50/99] USB: serial: add another 4N-GALAXY.DE PID to ftdi_sio driver Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [51/99] USB: xhci - fix interval calculation for FS isoc endpoints Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [52/99] ALSA: hda: Fix quirk for Dell Inspiron 910 Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [53/99] oprofile, dcookies: Fix possible circular locking dependency Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [54/99] CPUFREQ: Remove cpufreq_stats sysfs entries on module unload Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [55/99] md: check ->hot_remove_disk when removing disk Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [56/99] md/raid5: fix raid5_set_bi_hw_segments Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [57/99] exec: delay address limit change until point of no return Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [58/99] netfilter: IPv6: initialize TOS field in REJECT target module Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [59/99] netfilter: IPv6: fix DSCP mangle code Andi Kleen
2011-07-28 1:51 ` Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao
2011-07-28 1:53 ` [STABLE] [PATCH] IGMP snooping: set mrouters_only flag for IPv4 traffic properly Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao
2011-07-28 1:54 ` [STABLE][PATCH] IGMP snooping: set mrouters_only flag for IPv6 " Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao
2011-07-28 23:54 ` [PATCH] [59/99] netfilter: IPv6: fix DSCP mangle code Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:48 ` [PATCH] [60/99] xen: events: do not unmask event channels on resume Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [61/99] genirq: Add IRQF_FORCE_RESUME Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [62/99] xen: Use IRQF_FORCE_RESUME Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [63/99] time: Compensate for rounding on odd-frequency clocksources Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [64/99] Revert "iwlagn: Support new 5000 microcode." Andi Kleen
2011-07-28 8:24 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2011-07-28 13:45 ` Guy, Wey-Yi [this message]
2011-07-28 23:50 ` Andi Kleen
2011-07-28 17:32 ` Andi Kleen
2011-07-29 10:45 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [65/99] ksm: fix NULL pointer dereference in scan_get_next_rmap_item() Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [66/99] migrate: don't account swapcache as shmem Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [67/99] xen: partially revert "xen: set max_pfn_mapped to the last pfn mapped" Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [68/99] clocksource: Make watchdog robust vs. interruption Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [69/99] TTY: ldisc, do not close until there are readers Andi Kleen
2011-07-28 13:29 ` Jiri Slaby
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [70/99] xhci: Reject double add of active endpoints Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [71/99] PM: Free memory bitmaps if opening /dev/snapshot fails Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [72/99] ath5k: fix memory leak when fewer than N_PD_CURVES are in use Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [73/99] mm: fix negative commitlimit when gigantic hugepages are allocated Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [74/99] uvcvideo: Remove buffers from the queues when freeing Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [75/99] watchdog: mtx1-wdt: request gpio before using it Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [76/99] debugobjects: Fix boot crash when kmemleak and debugobjects enabled Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [77/99] cfq-iosched: fix locking around ioc->ioc_data assignment Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [78/99] cfq-iosched: fix a rcu warning Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [79/99] i2c-taos-evm: Fix log messages Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [80/99] md: avoid endless recovery loop when waiting for fail device to complete Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [81/99] SUNRPC: Ensure the RPC client only quits on fatal signals Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [82/99] 6pack,mkiss: fix lock inconsistency Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [83/99] taskstats: don't allow duplicate entries in listener mode Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [84/99] USB: don't let errors prevent system sleep Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [85/99] USB: don't let the hub driver " Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [86/99] uml: fix CONFIG_STATIC_LINK=y build failure with newer glibc Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [87/99] inet_diag: fix inet_diag_bc_audit() Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [88/99] PM / Hibernate: Fix free_unnecessary_pages() Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [89/99] bug.h: Add WARN_RATELIMIT Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [90/99] net: filter: Use WARN_RATELIMIT Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [91/99] af_packet: prevent information leak Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [92/99] net/ipv4: Check for mistakenly passed in non-IPv4 address Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [93/99] ipv6/udp: Use the correct variable to determine non-blocking condition Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [94/99] udp/recvmsg: Clear MSG_TRUNC flag when starting over for a new packet Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [95/99] mm: prevent concurrent unmap_mapping_range() on the same Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [96/99] proc: restrict access to /proc/PID/io Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [97/99] alpha: fix several security issues Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [98/99] x86: Make Dell Latitude E5420 use reboot=pci Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:49 ` [PATCH] [99/99] x86: Make Dell Latitude E6420 " Andi Kleen
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