| Summary: | Update for iwl5000-firmware version 8.83.5.1 | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | John W. Linville <linville> |
| Component: | iwl5000-firmware | Assignee: | Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 5.8 | CC: | jfeeney, linville, sgruszka |
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | 680456 | Environment: | |
| Last Closed: | 2011-09-24 15:36:10 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
John W. Linville
2011-02-25 16:18:32 UTC
On bug reports comments: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16691 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=648732 there is no clear statement the new firmware fix any problems. Most (or even all) success reports are about 6xxx devices, where problems ware fixed by driver. patches. Moreover for some 5xxx users new firmware cause regression. Particularly "Received BA when not expected" problem (which need driver patch, that we do not have in RHEL5 or RHEL6 kernel yet). Also all QA test we did was with old firmware. Taking into account above I'm moving bug to 5.8 (however I'm not sure if it's worth to add new 5xxx firmware to RHEL5 at all, if no driver update will be performed). This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated in the current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to address this request at this time. Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This firmware version will not work will other driver version, without modification of driver, i.e it support for it was removed from upstream 2.6.32-longterm. I think it is better to not risk regression and do not try to update firmware on RHEL5 |