Re: [GIT] Networking

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Sep 07 2017 - 00:57:59 EST


On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 9:11 PM, Coelho, Luciano
<luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This seems to be a problem with backwards-compatibility with FW version
> 27. We are now in version 31[1] and upgrading will probably fix that.

I can confirm that fw version 31 works.

> But obviously the driver should not fail miserably like this with
> version 27, because it claims to support it still.

Not just "claims to support it", but if it's what is shipped with a
fairly recent distro like an up-to-date version of F26, I would really
hope that the driver can still work with it.

> I'm looking into this now and will provide a fix asap.

Thanks,

Linus