Re: [PATCH 2.6.22 5/5] iw_cxgb3: Update required firmware revision to 4.0.0.

Steve Wise
2007-04-27T13:04:01Z

On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 20:12 -0700, 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?
>

I separated it only because cxgb3 is maintained by Jeff. Feel free to
make it one commit. That is the proper way IMO. But I didn't know what
SOP was for changes that hit different maintainers but are prerequisites
of each other...

> 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.
> - R.

I was asked to package the firmware version change along with my rdma
changes by Divy since they didn't have any other cxgb3 changes right
now. I believe Chelsio wants folks on this new firmware asap.

Steve.