On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. In this case, I think we should also print the range that is supported when we fail to find any suitable firmware. > > [...] > >> 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
