On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 16:43 -0400, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > What I'm angling at is a firmware file name like: > aic94xx-seq_10c6.req I don't think that's a good idea ... the current razor firmware is backwards compatible, so if I hard code a version into the file there'd be no upgrade ability. > and the driver attempts to read: > aic94xx-seq*.req It can't do that from the kernel ... this is all conditioned on how the user level firmware loader actually works > If there a multiple matches then it takes the one > with the most recent date (reporting this in syslog). The way you do this is to have a generic name (aic94xx-seq.fw) and then symbolically link it to the versioned file. The firmware itself is versioned, so if the driver comes to require a particular version (or later), it can be programmed to complain. James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
