> The old driver behavior was wrong. The bug was hidden because the firmware > was showing small number of reserved EQs, > so even when it was treated as log, there was not an issue. > New firmware versions use bigger number of reserved EQs, and using the same > field would break older drivers, that treat this > field as log, So the firmware needs to write the log to this field.
Do we really need to make the interface more complicated, forever, just to work around old buggy drivers with a known fix? Why can't the firmware just always follow what the PRM says? -- Roland Dreier <[email protected]> For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/index.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
