Re: Version number policy!

From: Kalle Valo
Date: Sat Apr 06 2013 - 02:12:47 EST


Eugene Krasnikov <k.eugene.e@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Good point regarding timestamp.
>
> When it comes to feature bitmap do you have an example of such a
> bitmap from carl9170? Why not to rely always on major version?

I'm with Christian here. In ath6kl we switched to firmware advertising
feature capabilities and I have never looked back, it's so much easier.
You don't need to do any mapping between firmware versions and features,
you just deal one feature at a time.

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Kalle Valo
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