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Patch "iwlwifi: fix double hyphen in MODULE_FIRMWARE for 8000" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

iwlwifi: fix double hyphen in MODULE_FIRMWARE for 8000

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
iwlwifi-fix-double-hyphen-in-module_firmware-for-8000.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From 7941c59e45f3b6d30e07375e9b6713427e0a9f98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: =?UTF-8?q?J=C3=BCrg=20Billeter?= <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 18:30:01 +0200
Subject: iwlwifi: fix double hyphen in MODULE_FIRMWARE for 8000
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From: Jürg Billeter <[email protected]>

commit 7941c59e45f3b6d30e07375e9b6713427e0a9f98 upstream.

Mistakenly, the driver is trying to load the 8000C firmware with an incorrect name (i.e. with two hyphens where there should be only one) and that fails. Fix that by removing the hyphen from the format macro.

Fixes e1ba684f762b ("iwlwifi: 8000: fix MODULE_FIRMWARE input")
---
 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-8000.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-8000.c +1 -1
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
 
 #define IWL8000_FW_PRE "iwlwifi-8000C-"
 #define IWL8000_MODULE_FIRMWARE(api) \
-	IWL8000_FW_PRE "-" __stringify(api) ".ucode"
+	IWL8000_FW_PRE __stringify(api) ".ucode"
 
 #define IWL8265_FW_PRE "iwlwifi-8265-"
 #define IWL8265_MODULE_FIRMWARE(api) \

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.9/iwlwifi-fix-double-hyphen-in-module_firmware-for-8000.patch