iwlwifi: Do not request unreleased firmware for IWL6000
authorBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Thu, 31 Aug 2023 20:24:51 +0000 (21:24 +0100)
committerSalvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Thu, 31 Aug 2023 20:24:51 +0000 (21:24 +0100)
commit319d525546931c54477a66f26a720a99d4ba0391
treed006847b7cd5f6cff833be4999feac9f9e4f9cde
parent7f3fe17031715ee613c9a585cad6e5802b3a2ed3
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