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From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
To: "Lucas Nussbaum" <lucas.nussbaum@imag.fr>
Cc: "netdev" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] tg3 cannot do PXE (loses MAC address) after soft reboot
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:47:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1189716472.9540.106.camel@dell> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070913192812.GA12053@xanadu.blop.info>

On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 21:28 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:

> Erm, Wouldn't it be possible to print a warning when the driver loads,
> saying that the firmware is outdated ?

It's possible, but would require the driver to parse the version string.
The driver currently reports the version string for information and for
the human to parse it.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-13 19:50 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 [this message]
2007-09-14  8:14           ` Ingo Oeser
2007-09-14 18:52             ` Michael Chan
2007-09-17 11:29               ` Ingo Oeser

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