iwlwifi: Do not request unreleased firmware for IWL6000
authorBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:28:10 +0000 (13:28 +0100)
committerSalvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:28:10 +0000 (13:28 +0100)
commit069e8994ce5acb6c49d5c1e4bc424eade3c86555
tree92162513d0dfa917d013166985708a86c50be26e
parent118ef2ea36873262b8a4dc019c568016742d1d38
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