linux-drivers/
drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm

Intel Wi-Fi 6/6E/7 MVM operating mode for iwlwifi

The operating-mode half of Intel's iwlwifi stack that runs modern Intel wireless cards — roughly the Wi-Fi 6, 6E, and 7 generations shipped in laptops and desktops from the mid-2010s onward, including current parts such as the AX200/AX210 and the newer BE200/BE201/BE202. It handles connection management, scanning, power saving, and offloads for those chips.

keep conf=0.95 deploy=high replacement=none subsystem=net category=networking-wireless
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recommendation

It should stay in the kernel because this is the active operating-mode component that drives Intel's current Wi-Fi 6, 6E, and 7 client adapters, including parts like the BE200/BE201/BE202 that Intel still launched as recently as 2023–2025. Mainline history shows heavy ongoing development through 2025–2026 and no removal effort, so it is core to Linux laptop wireless support today.

repository signals

51 files
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90 authors, 5y
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sources

  1. wireless.docs.kernel.org

    Linux Wireless documents iwlwifi as the driver for Intel's current wireless chips and lists Wi-Fi 6/6E/7 devices, including BE200/BE201/BE202; it also notes iwlmvm-specific features.

  2. intel.com

    Intel ARK lists Intel Wi-Fi 7 BE200 as launched in Q3'23 with Linux support, showing hardware covered by this driver family is still a current product.

  3. intel.com

    Intel's Wi-Fi 7 series product page lists multiple current Intel Wi-Fi 7 client adapters, including BE200/BE201/BE202 and newer Q4'25 entries, indicating ongoing new-hardware deployment.

  4. git.kernel.org

    Mainline history for the mvm directory shows it remains under active development rather than retirement.

codex reasoning notes (technical)

Local shell inspection of Kconfig and mvm/ops.c confirmed this is the active IWLMVM opmode driver, not a helper library. Local `git -c safe.directory=... log` showed many 2025-2026 commits in this path and no deprecation/removal-oriented path hits; a lore-targeted web search produced no obvious removal series. URLs for Linux Wireless docs and Intel product pages were obtained via `web.search_query`; the git.kernel.org log URL is a canonical recall stable page matching the local git-history check. Because IWLMVM covers still-sold Intel Wi-Fi 6/6E/7 client parts and upstream activity is heavy, removal/deprecation is not indicated.