From: Sanjeev Jorapur <sanjeev@netxen.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: "Amit S. Kale" <amitkale@linsyssoft.com>,
"Amit S. Kale" <amitkale@netxen.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org, unmproj@linsyssoft.com,
rob@netxen.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.17 2/9] NetXen: Hardware access routines
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:23:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1156530197.2916.24.camel@nbsanjeev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060821070302.5666e1ab@localhost.localdomain>
On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 07:03 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:57:23 +0530
> "Amit S. Kale" <amitkale@linsyssoft.com> wrote:
>
> > We can certainly create a table for all error messages. It'll hurt readability
> > of code in many of the other places where printks are used to indicate some
> > hardware error.
> > -Amit
>
> My suggestion was intended as an way to handle multiple driver versions
> all using the same firmware or vice versa. By locking the firmware and
> driver version together you might make maintenance more difficult.
We misunderstood your earlier comment. The compatible driver & firmware
images have the same major & minor version numbers. Only the sub-version
numbers may be different. This gives us more flexibility in releasing
driver & firmware fixes.
Sanjeev.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-25 18:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-18 14:38 [PATCH 2.6.17 0/9] NetXen: 1G/10G Ethernet Driver Amit S. Kale
2006-08-18 14:44 ` [PATCH 2.6.17 1/9] NetXen: Makefile and driver main file Amit S. Kale
2006-08-18 14:58 ` [PATCH 2.6.17 2/9] NetXen: Hardware access routines Amit S. Kale
2006-08-18 15:16 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-21 8:27 ` Amit S. Kale
2006-08-21 14:03 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-25 18:23 ` Sanjeev Jorapur [this message]
2006-08-28 9:52 ` Amit S. Kale
2006-08-21 9:55 ` [PATCH 2.6.17 2/9] NetXen: Hardware access routines (name prefixed) Pradeep Dalvi
2006-08-21 10:01 ` [PATCH 2.6.17 1/9] NetXen: Makefile and driver main file (name prefix change) Pradeep Dalvi
2006-08-18 15:01 ` [PATCH 2.6.17 3/9] NetXen: hw initialization routines Amit S. Kale
2006-08-21 10:04 ` [PATCH 2.6.17 3/9] NetXen: hw initialization routines (name prefix change) Pradeep Dalvi
2006-08-18 15:04 ` [PATCH 2.6.17 4/9] NetXen: intr routines and niu handling Amit S. Kale
2006-08-18 15:22 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-21 8:40 ` Amit S. Kale
2006-08-18 15:06 ` [PATCH 2.6.17 5/9] NetXen: ethtool interface Amit S. Kale
2006-08-18 15:10 ` [PATCH 2.6.17 6/9] NetXen: Main header file Amit S. Kale
2006-08-21 10:05 ` [PATCH 2.6.17 6/9] NetXen: Main header file (Name prefix change) Pradeep Dalvi
2006-08-18 15:12 ` [PATCH 2.6.17 7/9] NetXen: hw access routines header file Amit S. Kale
2006-08-18 15:14 ` [PATCH 2.6.17 8/9] NetXen: Header file and ioctl " Amit S. Kale
2006-08-18 15:17 ` [PATCH 2.6.17 9/9] NetXen: CRB reg defininitions Amit S. Kale
2006-08-22 7:43 ` [PATCH 2.6.17 0/9] NetXen: 1G/10G Ethernet Driver Pradeep Dalvi
2006-08-24 0:04 ` Don Fry
2006-08-25 13:19 ` Amit S. Kale
2006-08-24 20:36 ` [PATCH 2.6.17 0/9] NetXen: 1G/10G Ethernet Driver - patch for big-endian systems wen xiong
2006-08-24 21:29 ` Michael Buesch
2006-08-24 21:40 ` Francois Romieu
2006-08-25 13:18 ` Amit S. Kale
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-08-31 14:02 [PATCH 2.6.17 0/9] NetXen: 1G/10G Ethernet Driver Amit S. Kale
2006-08-31 14:13 ` [PATCH 2.6.17 2/9] NetXen: Hardware access routines Amit S. Kale
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