iwlwifi: Do not request unreleased firmware for IWL6000
authorBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 05:55:40 +0000 (06:55 +0100)
committerSalvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 05:55:40 +0000 (06:55 +0100)
commit133a5e60fa65e526cd5f50923ab996e707505c82
tree8fa5e03388bc3aad5f612bd8ba089ff60905911e
parentf141e2b7e1f7f83f014d12c0c23474c656a9fcdf
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