From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mchan@broadcom.com
Cc: max@stro.at, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7][BNX2]: Update firmware.
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:16:03 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080129.211603.50722237.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1201660196.19087.29.camel@dell>
From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:29:56 -0800
> Didn't we beat this topic to death last time?
Yes we did.
> Once again, the driver is tightly coupled with the firmware. We don't
> want things to break when users upgrade or downgrade the kernel. Coding
> the driver to deal with different firmware versions will add a lot of
> complexity.
I absolutely agree with Michael here.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-30 5:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-30 0:20 [PATCH 6/7][BNX2]: Update firmware Michael Chan
2008-01-29 23:46 ` maximilian attems
2008-01-30 2:29 ` Michael Chan
2008-01-30 5:16 ` David Miller [this message]
2008-01-30 5:38 ` David Miller
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