On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 09:27:15AM +0200, Luca Coelho wrote: [...] > > > > Is this a known issue? Please let me know if anyone wants more info or > > > > logs, since this error triggers easily (everytime I boot). > > > > > > The error message isn't really telling much to the user (hint hint) but > > > I suspect this is by design: > > > > > > "iwlwifi: remove support for fw older than -17 and -22 > > Right, we only maintain support for a certain number of firmware > versions. The FW APIs change with time and we don't want to keep all > legacy code supporting old firmwares in the driver forever. > > I agree that "no suitable firmware found!" is a bit scarce. I'll see > if we can improve that with something: "no suitable firmware found! You > need iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode (<link to git>)". That'll be great if we can have this info in the log. Maybe no need for a full URL, the firmware name would suffice at least for me. [...] > I don't think we are very aggressive, we have been supporting -17 since > v4.3: > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5865f3658ba37c54e346b0fdee08a1c7a152681b > > And we have published the firmware about half a year ago: > > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode?id=f2cf4d67e8eced29c8a473d3a27057aa2df57c42 > > I understand your concern, but if you want to be on the bleeding-edge > kernel, you should be on the bleeding-edge linux-firmware as well. ;) Fair enough. :-) > > But as I said, I'll try to improve the error message, as that should > make it easier to figure out. Thank you! -- peterx
