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Bug#724833: linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64: Support for Intel wireless 7000/3000 series in Debian 7.3?



On Sat, 2013-09-28 at 16:22 +0200, Vincent Blut wrote:
> Package: src:linux
> Version: 3.2.46-1+deb7u1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to know if it'd be doable to backport the following patch
> in Linux 3.2 in order to add support for the last Intel wireless
> series.

It is not possible to cherry-pick these patches as there have been many
other changes to the driver after Linux 3.2.

> commit  99cd471423991fe9ba011e8948cdea95f5432338
> iwlwifi: add 7000 series device configuration 
> 
> commit  93fc64114b994f9ef6901697f9b0de00762680e9
> iwlwifi: add new 7260 and 3160 series device IDs (it also add device
> configuration)
> 
> commit  a2d0909a687b4d250cc2b7481072e361678745ba
> iwlwifi: bump required firmware API version for 3160/7260 (will need
> firmware-iwlwifi ⩾ 0.40)
> 
> commit  3b1995ad83709ac2e1e86c99b37d5ba9ce410f56
> iwlwifi: Kconfig: fix help texts wrt 7260 and 3160 devices (might be
> useful for people building from sources, but probably not suitable for a
> stable release ‽)
> 
> If you accept my request for Debian 7.3 (or later), do you intend to use
> iwlwifi from the compat-drivers project? If so I can start to test how
> do they behave on Linux 3.2 right now.

Yes, I do intend to work on integrating the compat-drivers project into
future stable updates.

Ben.

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