From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: somnath.kotur@emulex.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] be2net: Warn users of possible broken functionality on BE2 cards with very old FW versions with latest driver
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 09:44:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1381164269.2081.185.camel@joe-AO722> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131007.123116.1462434377931881914.davem@davemloft.net>
On Mon, 2013-10-07 at 12:31 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@emulex.com>
> Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 15:34:29 +0530
> > + if (BE2_chip(adapter) && memcmp(adapter->fw_ver, "4.", 2) < 0) {
> > + dev_err(dev, "Firmware version is too old.IRQs may not work\n");
>
> So many grammatical mistakes in one line.
>
> First sentence got a period, second one did not.
>
> Missing space between period and second sentence.
Periods are unnecessary here.
Just use a comma or a dash.
Also, it might be nicer to show the current firmware version too.
Maybe:
dev_err(dev, "Firmware version is '%s' - Version 5 or higher is required for properly functional IRQs\n",
adapter->fw_ver);
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-07 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-03 10:04 [PATCH net v2] be2net: Warn users of possible broken functionality on BE2 cards with very old FW versions with latest driver Somnath Kotur
2013-10-07 16:31 ` David Miller
2013-10-07 16:44 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2013-10-16 14:59 ` Ivan Vecera
2013-10-17 5:41 ` Somnath Kotur
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