From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751526AbXD0QxM (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:53:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756077AbXD0QxM (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:53:12 -0400 Received: from stargate.chelsio.com ([12.22.49.110]:32369 "EHLO stargate.chelsio.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751526AbXD0QxK (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:53:10 -0400 Message-ID: <46322A67.5070608@chelsio.com> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:52:55 -0700 From: Divy Le Ray User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roland Dreier CC: Steve Wise , jeff@garzik.org, general@lists.openfabrics.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.22 5/5] iw_cxgb3: Update required firmware revision to 4.0.0. References: <20070426202057.24234.56383.stgit@dell3.ogc.int> <20070426202126.24234.71523.stgit@dell3.ogc.int> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Apr 2007 16:52:58.0575 (UTC) FILETIME=[82758DF0:01C788EC] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Roland Dreier wrote: > > Update required firmware revision to 4.0.0. > > Hmm... should we fold this into the earlier patch, which actually > needs this new FW? Or at least merge this patch first? > > Also, is it cool with everyone to require a new FW, even for users who > might not be using (or even building) the RDMA driver? I'm not sure > what a good solution would be really, so maybe the pain of forcing > everyone to update FW is the least bad thing to do. > > Hi Roland, The FW update required code changes in the RDMA driver, so Steve took care of submitting the update patch. The new FW is required for the NIC driver too. Cheers, Divy