iwlagn: separate firmware version warning
We sometimes need to support new firmware API for a while before we can publish them since testing them fully takes a long time. We could keep all the new code private, but that causes plenty of problems and sometimes we can give a pre-release version of firmware to people who need to test. However, when we just bump the API version, the driver will warn everybody that their firmware is outdated, when in fact it isn't. (Currently our case for this doesn't really change the API but bumping the API version is necessary because the firmware isn't fully backward compatible) In order to handle this in the future, add a new "api_ok" version; only below this will the driver warn that the uCode is too old. Signed-off-by:Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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