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Date:	Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:28:12 +0200
From:	Lucas Nussbaum <lucas.nussbaum@...g.fr>
To:	Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] tg3 cannot do PXE (loses MAC address) after soft reboot

On 13/09/07 at 11:05 -0700, Michael Chan wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 17:41 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> 
> > # ethtool -i eth0
> > driver: tg3
> > version: 3.65
> > firmware-version: 5703-v2.21a
> > bus-info: 0000:02:02.0
> 
> The firmware is quite old and needs to be upgraded to fix the problem.
> I'll have someone contact you to get it upgraded.

Erm, Wouldn't it be possible to print a warning when the driver loads,
saying that the firmware is outdated ?
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