linux-kernel - Re: [patch net-next] cxgb3: update firmware version

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Message-ID: <20120214182110.GO12704@decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:21:10 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
Cc:	Divy Le Ray <divy@...lsio.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Steve Wise <swise@...ngridcomputing.com>, nhorman@...driver.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next] cxgb3: update firmware version

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:17:27AM -0800, Rick Jones wrote:
> What does an end-user/customer see and do?  When they are told that
> version the firmware, specified down to the fix level, fixes a
> problem they are having, how will they know that firmware blob
> filename drvfw-X.bin on a download/archive site has that fix?
[...]

Customers currently can't get bug fixes by updating the firmware.
Think about it.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
                                                              - Albert Camus
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