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Re: [PATCH 16/16] iwlagn: downgrade warning on unknown TLV

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On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 01:15 -0700, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 08:30 -0700, Wey-Yi Guy wrote:
> > From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > If we maintain API properly, then there isn't
> > really a reason to warn about this since we'll
> > just be adding things that are safe to ignore,
> > so downgrade the warning to debug info level.
> 
> This might be worthwhile for .39 since we'll be releasing firmware with
> some TLVs it doesn't understand eventually.
> 
> johannes
> 
I am not sure it is that important since .39 will not support support
the new TLV and this give a good indication to upgrade even driver
should still works. 
Just like if there are newer version of firmware available for download,
driver do give a warning for it.

Wey



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