From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Francois Romieu Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] linux-firmware: update firmware for RTL8111E Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 21:23:09 +0200 Message-ID: <20110509192309.GA20763@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <1304928149-2201-1-git-send-email-hayeswang@realtek.com> <1304929425.12237.15.camel@i7.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Hayes Wang , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Woodhouse Return-path: Received: from violet.fr.zoreil.com ([92.243.8.30]:57889 "EHLO violet.fr.zoreil.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753555Ab1EITct (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 May 2011 15:32:49 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1304929425.12237.15.camel@i7.infradead.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: David Woodhouse : [...] > I'd be a lot happier if the WHENCE file contained version numbers. Does > the *driver* print a version string for the firmware after loading it? No. Hayes, do we agree that the firmware needs to embed a version identifier (and some checksum to identify the current firmware that don't embed one). -- Ueimor