From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Wise Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.22 5/5] iw_cxgb3: Update required firmware revision to 4.0.0. Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:03:56 -0500 Message-ID: <1177679036.10490.15.camel@stevo-desktop> References: <20070426202057.24234.56383.stgit@dell3.ogc.int> <20070426202126.24234.71523.stgit@dell3.ogc.int> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jeff@garzik.org, divy@chelsio.com, general@lists.openfabrics.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Roland Dreier Return-path: Received: from rrcs-71-42-183-126.sw.biz.rr.com ([71.42.183.126]:48231 "EHLO smtp.opengridcomputing.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755790AbXD0ND5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:03:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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.