linux-kernel - Re: pull request: linux-firmware: update cxgb* firmwares

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Date:	Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:07:01 -0500
From:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
To:	Divy Le Ray <divy@...lsio.com>
Cc:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pull request: linux-firmware: update cxgb* firmwares

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 07:07:37PM -0800, Divy Le Ray wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> Can you please pull from the following URL?
>      git://git.chelsio.net/pub/git/linux-firmware.git for-david
> 
> It contains the following commits:
> 03cadf2 linux-firmware: update cxgb3 driver firmware to revision 7.12.0
> 235dfaf linux-firmware: add t4fw-1.4.16.0.bin firmware for cxgb4 driver.
> e2ea873 linux-firmware: remove current t4fw.bin
> 
> The following changes since commit 15888a2eab052ac3d3f49334e4f6f05f347a516e:
> 
>   bnx2x: Adding FW 7.0.29.0 (2011-10-24 16:31:44 +0200)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
>   git://git.chelsio.net/pub/git/linux-firmware.git for-david
> 
> Divy Le Ray (3):
>       linux-firmware: remove current t4fw.bin
>       linux-firmware: add t4fw-1.4.16.0.bin firmware for cxgb4 driver.
>       linux-firmware: update cxgb3 driver firmware to revision 7.12.0
> 
>  WHENCE                  |    3 ++-
>  cxgb3/t3fw-7.12.0.bin   |  Bin 0 ->  31812 bytes
>  cxgb4/t4fw-1.4.16.0.bin |  Bin 0 ->  298496 bytes
>  cxgb4/t4fw.bin          |  Bin 241664 ->  0 bytes
>  4 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100755 cxgb3/t3fw-7.12.0.bin
>  create mode 100644 cxgb4/t4fw-1.4.16.0.bin
>  delete mode 100644 cxgb4/t4fw.bin
> 
Deleting the old firmware is a bad idea.  You've haven't modified the driver in
net or net-next to use the new firmware, and until you do, kernels won't be able
to find the firmware the driver is requesting.  You should make firmware changes
addative.  Add new versions of firmware, but keep the old ones (at least for a
while).  Thank you for moving cxgb4 to a versioned firmware file though.  I
presume there is a pending update to change the FW_FNAME definition to pending?
Neil

> 
> Cheers,
> Divy
> 
> 
> 
> 
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