From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jiri@resnulli.us
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, yuvalm@mellanox.com, idosch@mellanox.com,
mlxsw@mellanox.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next] mlxsw: spectrum: Upper-bound supported FW version
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 15:46:39 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180119.154639.1976472463237128637.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180118115523.5283-1-jiri@resnulli.us>
From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 12:55:23 +0100
> From: Yuval Mintz <yuvalm@mellanox.com>
>
> During initialization the driver checks whether the flashed FW image
> suits its requirements by checking that it's sufficiently new.
> However, there's only a weak backward compatibility scheme that is
> actually guaranteed by the FW, so driver must also upper bound the
> version to prevent compatibility issues between current driver and some
> possible future fw.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <yuvalm@mellanox.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Applied, thanks.
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2018-01-18 11:55 [patch net-next] mlxsw: spectrum: Upper-bound supported FW version Jiri Pirko
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