Re: [patch net-next] cxgb3: update firmware version

[Divy Le Ray]

On Monday, February 13, 2012 12:43:37 PM, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 12:28 -0800, Divy Le Ray wrote:
> > This patch updates the firmware version cxgb3 is requesting to 7.12.0.
>
>
> I'm confused. Your patch doesn't change anything in the driver, except
> the firmware version. So why is it a "major" change?

Hi David,

cxgb3 embeds the firmware file name it will request at load time.
It uses the FW_VERSION_* defs to construct the firmware name FW_FNAME 
before calling request_firmware().
Hence the need to update the firmware minor version.

On the other hand, the driver version update is not a strict requirement 
here.
I would prefer keeping it though.

Cheers,
Divy

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