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Re: [stable] Making Intel WiFi Link 1000 usable in 2.6.31

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On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 12:34:19PM -0700, reinette chatre wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A few distributions would like to enable the new 1000 series Intel
> wireless hardware (Intel WiFi Link 1000BGN) in their next releases that
> are based on 2.6.31. This hardware is not usable in 2.6.31, but it can
> be enabled in this kernel with the addition of five patches.
> 
> Until now we have been providing the distributions with this list of
> patches to do their own backporting. 
> 
> Since this seems to be a general problem for distributions and users
> alike, is it possible to consider these enabling patches for inclusion
> into 2.6.31?
> 
> Here is the list:
> 
> commit cc0f555d511a5fe9d4519334c8f674a1dbab9e3a
> Author: Jay Sternberg <jay.e.sternberg@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Fri Jul 17 09:30:16 2009 -0700
> 
>     iwlwifi: Handle new firmware file with ucode build number in header
> 
> commit cce53aa347c1e023d967b1cb1aa393c725aedba5
> Author: Jay Sternberg <jay.e.sternberg@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Fri Jul 17 09:30:22 2009 -0700
> 
>     iwlwifi: update 1000 series API version to match firmware
> 
> commit 02c06e4abc0680afd31bf481a803541556757fb6
> Author: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Fri Jul 17 09:30:14 2009 -0700
> 
>     iwlagn: modify digital SVR for 1000
> 
> commit 415e49936b4b29b34c2fb561eeab867d41fc43a6
> Author: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Thu Aug 13 13:30:54 2009 -0700
> 
>     iwlwifi: traverse linklist to find the valid OTP block
> 
> commit f7ea097d9b4e61a816c041c92548aad7c7ed7915
> Author: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Fri Jul 24 11:13:12 2009 -0700
> 
>     iwlagn: fix null pointer access during ucode load on 1000
> 
> Thank you very much

Is this the order in which they should be applied?

thanks,

greg k-h
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