The firmware version information should always get printed. Not only on a debug build. The patch by Michael Buesch has been ported to b43legacy. Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@xxxxxxxxx> --- Index: wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/main.c =================================================================== --- wireless-2.6.orig/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/main.c +++ wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/main.c @@ -1670,10 +1670,11 @@ static int b43legacy_upload_microcode(st err = -EOPNOTSUPP; goto error; } - b43legacydbg(dev->wl, "Loading firmware version 0x%X, patch level %u " - "(20%.2i-%.2i-%.2i %.2i:%.2i:%.2i)\n", fwrev, fwpatch, - (fwdate >> 12) & 0xF, (fwdate >> 8) & 0xF, fwdate & 0xFF, - (fwtime >> 11) & 0x1F, (fwtime >> 5) & 0x3F, fwtime & 0x1F); + b43legacyinfo(dev->wl, "Loading firmware version 0x%X, patch level %u " + "(20%.2i-%.2i-%.2i %.2i:%.2i:%.2i)\n", fwrev, fwpatch, + (fwdate >> 12) & 0xF, (fwdate >> 8) & 0xF, fwdate & 0xFF, + (fwtime >> 11) & 0x1F, (fwtime >> 5) & 0x3F, + fwtime & 0x1F); dev->fw.rev = fwrev; dev->fw.patch = fwpatch; -- Ciao Stefano - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html