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From: Divy Le Ray <divy@chelsio.com>
Subject: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 2.6.22 5/5] iw_cxgb3: Update required
 firmware revision to 4.0.0.
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:52:55 -0700
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Roland Dreier wrote:
>  > Update required firmware revision to 4.0.0.
>
> Hmm... should we fold this into the earlier patch, which actually
> needs this new FW?  Or at least merge this patch first?
>
> Also, is it cool with everyone to require a new FW, even for users who
> might not be using (or even building) the RDMA driver?  I'm not sure
> what a good solution would be really, so maybe the pain of forcing
> everyone to update FW is the least bad thing to do.
>
>  
Hi Roland,

The FW update required code changes in the RDMA driver, so Steve took 
care of submitting the update patch.
The new FW is required for the NIC driver too.

Cheers,
Divy