Re: Version number policy!

[Eugene Krasnikov]

Thanx Christian for a valuable input.

It’s a good idea to pack bitmap into the tail/header of the firmware
binary to get capabilities even before fw loading. The plan is to add
8 bytes for caps and also add time stamp. Let me play around with that
and provide fw and driver patch for review.

2013/4/6 Adrian Chadd <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On 5 April 2013 22:52, Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Ok. Well, we've got plenty of time to finalise this before things get
> established. There's still plenty of tidying up to do before we start
> pushing in new features.
>
> Thanks for all your feedback so far!
>
>
>
> Adrian



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Best regards,
Eugene
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