netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] net/r8169: update the new parser for the new firmware

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Message-ID: <1308322219.2831.1.camel@bwh-desktop>
Date:	Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:50:19 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
Cc:	hayeswang <hayeswang@...ltek.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net/r8169: update the new parser for the new
 firmware

On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 14:53 +0200, Francois Romieu wrote:
> Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com> :
> [...]
> > I thought the idea of embedding a version here was to be able to report
> > in in get_drvinfo, not to print it on load.
> 
> Reporting the version for the new firmware format through ethtool is
> currently hacked on.
> 
> Do you want the load time version / format messages removed ?
>
> I think they can be of some use - at least temporarily - but I won't mind
> removing them now.

I don't care one way or the other.  But it's more important to report
the version through get_drvinfo.

Ben.

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