netdev - Re: [BUG] tg3 cannot do PXE (loses MAC address) after soft reboot

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Message-ID: <1189716472.9540.106.camel@dell>
Date:	Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:47:52 -0700
From:	"Michael Chan" <mchan@...adcom.com>
To:	"Lucas Nussbaum" <lucas.nussbaum@...g.fr>
cc:	"netdev" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] tg3 cannot do PXE (loses MAC address) after soft
 reboot

On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 21:28 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:

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 saying that the firmware is outdated ?

It's possible, but would require the driver to parse the version string.
The driver currently reports the version string for information and for
the human to parse it.

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