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  1. Bug #1293569
  2. Comment #60

Comment 60 for bug 1293569

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Seth Forshee (sforshee) wrote : Re: [Bug 1293569] Re: iwlwifi-7260-8.ucode causes network disconnections problems

On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 03:23:44PM -0000, Jason Gerard DeRose wrote:
> Seth, I noticed that the linux-firmware package in proposed (1.127.3)
> doesn't have the 7260 -8 firmware, but does have the 3160 -8 firmware?
> Is this intentional?
>
> $ dpkg -L linux-firmware | egrep "7260|3160"
> /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3160-8.ucode
> /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-7260-7.ucode
> /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-7260-9.ucode
> /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3160-9.ucode
> /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3160-7.ucode

I didn't think that there were any reports of issues with 3160, but now
I see that you did mention it in comment #42. At this point we've
already queued up the patch to disable beacon filtering in 3.13, so I'm
not sure that it makes sense to pull out the -8 firmware for 3160 at
this point.

Also just a note that we do plan to reintroduce the -8 firmare for 7260
once the kernel with the beacon filtering patch gets relesed.

> Also, IWL7260_UCODE_API_MAX seems to still be set at 8 as the -9
> firmware

Yep. Right now we aren't planning to bump 3.13 to use -9, but in the
future we'll have HWE kernels which will use it, so Tim went ahead and
included it when he updated linux-firmware recently.