iwlwifi: Do not request unreleased firmware for IWL6000
authorBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Fri, 29 Sep 2023 04:15:31 +0000 (05:15 +0100)
committerSalvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Fri, 29 Sep 2023 04:15:31 +0000 (05:15 +0100)
commit690f57662725e0da1f7ce015aa63a9cd70535f96
tree150354e1862bca550c62d39c0c064a6e34bc1cf0
parente1b0735ff5436a40540d8d8651d3d02d8755cf18
iwlwifi: Do not request unreleased firmware for IWL6000

Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/689416
Forwarded: not-needed

The iwlwifi driver currently supports firmware API versions 4-6 for
these devices.  It will request the file for the latest supported
version and then fall back to earlier versions.  However, the latest
version that has actually been released is 4, so we expect the
requests for versions 6 and then 5 to fail.

The installer appears to report any failed request, and it is probably
not easy to detect that this particular failure is harmless.  So stop
requesting the unreleased firmware.

Gbp-Pq: Topic debian
Gbp-Pq: Name iwlwifi-do-not-request-unreleased-firmware.patch
drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/cfg/6000.c