From: Ingo Oeser <netdev@axxeo.de>
To: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
Cc: "Lucas Nussbaum" <lucas.nussbaum@imag.fr>,
"netdev" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] tg3 cannot do PXE (loses MAC address) after soft reboot
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:29:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200709171329.35656.netdev@axxeo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1189795942.9540.155.camel@dell>
Michael Chan schrieb:
> On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 10:14 +0200, Ingo Oeser wrote:
> > Is it enough to parse the first number in the firmware via simple_strtoul()?
>
> No, it's not. We need to check the number after the '.' and possibly an
> alphabet at the end as well. Worse yet, the version may be different
> for different chips.
Ah, I see. I thought the first number is some constantly increasing
internal version number from your SCM[1] and the other is the
"marketing release number".
Thank you for explaining this. And that different version for different
chips issue make it really hard. I can see that now.
> We'll see if we can come up with a simple way to detect the problem.
That would help your users (like the customers of my employer).
Admins and system vendors will love you for that :-)
Best Regards
Ingo Oeser
[1] Source Control Management e.g. cvs, subversion, git
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-17 11:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-13 8:39 [BUG] tg3 cannot do PXE (loses MAC address) after soft reboot Lucas Nussbaum
2007-09-13 15:15 ` Michael Chan
2007-09-13 15:41 ` Lucas Nussbaum
2007-09-13 18:05 ` Michael Chan
2007-09-13 19:28 ` Lucas Nussbaum
2007-09-13 20:47 ` Michael Chan
2007-09-14 8:14 ` Ingo Oeser
2007-09-14 18:52 ` Michael Chan
2007-09-17 11:29 ` Ingo Oeser [this message]
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