iwlwifi: Do not request unreleased firmware for IWL6000
authorBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Sat, 23 May 2020 14:29:21 +0000 (15:29 +0100)
committerSalvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Sat, 23 May 2020 14:29:21 +0000 (15:29 +0100)
commit6467501e9ffbf0fb19b5e98cbf47b29d6fffb418
treee5953224ed3f0e1b28e09cd50f583a95d0d7556e
parent24489847de473a0c50ec83a7151b5ddcc7f37cc5
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