[Trusty][PATCH 1/5] iwlwifi: 7000: bump firmware API version to 9

Grumbach, Emmanuel emmanuel.grumbach at intel.com
Sat Nov 22 19:08:08 UTC 2014


> 
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 10:35:29AM +0000, Grumbach, Emmanuel wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Not really related to this, but please note that I update -9.ucode
> > today in my linux-firmware.git clone.
> > Unfortunately, the maintainers of the "official" linux-firmware.git
> > are not very responsive...
> 
> :) our snnipt is below, really disabled
> WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_SCHED_SCAN:
> 
> if (0 && mvm->fw->ucode_capa.flags &
> IWL_UCODE_TLV_FLAGS_SCHED_SCAN) {
>         hw->wiphy->flags |= WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_SCHED_SCAN;
>         hw->wiphy->max_sched_scan_ssids = PROBE_OPTION_MAX;
>         hw->wiphy->max_match_sets = IWL_SCAN_MAX_PROFILES;
>         /* we create the 802.11 header and zero length SSID IE. */
>         hw->wiphy->max_sched_scan_ie_len =
>                                 SCAN_OFFLOAD_PROBE_REQ_SIZE - 24 - 2; }
> 
> About the firmware you just updated, I noticed you didn't mention what
> bugs it fixed, are you recommend we wait it merged? Otherwise for our
> bug(https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1393317), the latest version in the
> "official" linux-firmware.git is good enough.

Well... change log on the firmware is always a challenge :)
I know about a few fixes in data path which are not always very visible but it is still worth taking it :)

> 
> Great thanks to you, Emmanuel.






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