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Re: [RHEL6 PATCH] iwlwifi: remove spurious warning

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>> > BZ#837754
>> >
>> > Description:
>> > Some devices do not set SEQ_RX_FRAME flags for few commands that should
>> > not be reclaimed. It was supposed to be fixed in firmware, but it was
>> > not.
>> >
>> > Upstream change also add possibility to configure which commands should
>> > not be reclaimed, but that option is not used - only original 6 commands
>> > are configured. So I did not backport that part, because it make things
>> > somewhat (not necessarily) complex.
>>
>> Yeah, looks fine. I'd hoped it was fixed for iwlwifi drivers (we
>> couldn't remember if it was 4965 only or not) but it turns out it wasn't
>> so this is needed.
>>
>> I don't know if there's anything I should do about this though?
>
> Sorry Johannes that was not intended to go to you and to the public.
>
> Stanislaw
> --

I would be glad to know on what commands this WARN_ON triggers
though... The command name should be printed along with the WARN_ON.
Also it is not really a bug in fw, it is more like a convention that
we (Linux driver developers) don't really like because it creates a
dependency between 2 layers in the driver, but this is another story.
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