On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 10:14 +0200, Ingo Oeser wrote: > Michael Chan schrieb: > > 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 saying that the firmware is outdated ?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. > > Yes, but most humans don't know all valid firmware versions of their > components. > > Is it enough to parse the first number in the firmware via simple_strtoul()?
No, it's not. We need to check the number after the '.' and possibly an alphabet at the end as well. Worse yet, the version may be different for different chips. We'll see if we can come up with a simple way to detect the problem. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
