[Acked/cmt] [pull-request][utopic SRU] iwlwifi: Backport firmware monitor support

[Andy Whitcroft]

On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 04:05:35PM -0600, Seth Forshee wrote:
> These patches were backported from 3.17 by Intel to help with debugging
> firmware issues [1]. They aren't suitable for upstream stable, but Intel
> wireless is widely used among Ubuntu users so I think it makes sense for
> us to pick them up if it's going to help get firmware bugs fixed.
> 
> The firmware monitor support is disabled be default and enabled only
> when the fw_monitor=1 option is given to iwlwifi. I have reviewed the
> patches, and I believe they have low potential for regression,
> especially without the module option. I also saw no regressions during
> testing, with or without the module option.
> 
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1399440

Ok, this is a seemingly large heap of change, but they are self
contained affecting only one driver.  They are also official backports
by the maintainer of upstream accepted commits.  If they are going
to help us debug notty problems (well help Intel do so) then they
probabally are worth the pain.

Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw at canonical.com>

-apw