From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Divy Le Ray <divy@chelsio.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, swise@opengridcomputing.com,
nhorman@tuxdriver.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next] cxgb3: update firmware version
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:43:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1329165817.2092.62.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120213202846.631.30806.stgit@speedy5.asicdesigners.com>
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On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 12:28 -0800, Divy Le Ray wrote:
> This patch updates the firmware version cxgb3 is requesting to 7.12.0.
I'm confused. Your patch doesn't change anything in the driver, except
the firmware version. So why is it a "major" change?
If it's a *compatible* change then we wouldn't normally change the
soname of a library; why do we change the filename of the firmware
(which is the equivalent operation)?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-13 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-13 20:28 [patch net-next] cxgb3: update firmware version Divy Le Ray
2012-02-13 20:43 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2012-02-13 21:39 ` Divy Le Ray
2012-02-14 1:59 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-02-14 4:49 ` Divy Le Ray
2012-02-14 5:08 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-02-14 5:55 ` Divy Le Ray
2012-02-14 18:17 ` Rick Jones
2012-02-14 18:21 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-02-14 20:02 ` Rick Jones
2012-02-14 22:02 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-02-15 20:48 ` David Miller
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