[PATCH 0/2] Fix iwl6000 does not work in 2.6.31 kernel

[Stefan Bader]

Ike Panhc wrote:
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496496
> 
> User reports that the Ubuntu Karmic (2.6.31-14-generic) recognize the the PCI
> id of iwl6000 series but can not scan for APs and not even to associate to AP.
> We need two commits cherry-picked from mainline kernel to fix this problem.
> 
> Since we have only version 4 firmware for iwl6000 in the linux-firmware package.
> We need to change the IWL6000_UCODE_API_MAX to v4 for driver to load version 4
> firmware.
> 
> After fixing the firmware loading issue, the dmesg reports randomly command
> timeout for RXON, Unifying RXON timing is necessary for iwl6000. One minor
> conflict solved due to we still need sw_crypto in iwl-dev.h
> 
> Patches against linux-2.6.31.8 and Ubuntu-2.6.31-17.54 are listed below.
> 
> Ike Panhc (1):
>   iwlwifi: unify iwl_setup_rxon_timing
> 
> Wey-Yi Guy (1):
>   iwlwifi: change IWL6000_UCODE_API_MAX to v4
> 
>  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945.c     |    1 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-6000.c     |    4 +-
>  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c      |   64 -----------------------
>  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-commands.h |   20 +++++++-
>  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c     |   59 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h     |    1 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-dev.h      |    1 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c |   74 +--------------------------
>  8 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 140 deletions(-)
> 
> 
Ok, both patches got NAKed upstream. Patch #2 was a functionally
equivalent change and the firmware should not be enabled by the
2.6.31 driver as other parts are missing.
So Ike, please update the bug report accordingly. If not yet done,
let them try backports-modules and otherwise let them know that
the changes required to enable this hw correctly are to big to be
acceptable as SRU for Karmic.

Thanks,
-Stefan