Re: [PATCH] fpga fr br: fix warning for unexpected version number
From: Moritz Fischer
Date: Wed Apr 05 2017 - 20:13:51 EST
Hi Matthew,
On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 3:25 PM, <matthew.gerlach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Maybe you actually wanna bail out if you read a random other value
>> instead of what you
>> expect instead of printing a warning.
>
>
> I thought about making it an error if the version didn't match, but it was a
> dev_warn() before and that allowed folks to use the "old" driver with the
> new IP version.
Or some random other piece of logic in the FPGA that happens to be mapped
to that address ;-)
I agree we should've probably caught this in the initial review, but maybe we
should change it.
Cheers,
Moritz