On Wed, 2016-12-28 at 10:17 +0200, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote: > 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. Sure, I'll do that. I just wanted to keep it simple in this thread. ;) -- Luca.
