netdev - Re: [PATCH] linux-firmware: bnx2: Update firmware and version

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Message-ID: <1305069055.30435.99.camel@i7.infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 11 May 2011 00:10:54 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux-firmware: bnx2: Update firmware and version

On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 15:16 -0700, Michael Chan wrote:
> upstream kernel commit dc187cb381f1bceb30498861ece510245c43ed9f

This stuff should no longer get changed in the upstream kernel; what's
there is *historical* and due for deletion.

> Update 5709 mips firmware to 6.2.1a to fix iSCSI performance
> regression.  There was an unnecessary context read in the fast path
> affecting performance. 

Is this update not ABI compatible? You have changed the soname of the
firmware... was that intentional?

-- 
dwmw2

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