Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7][BNX2]: Update firmware.

From: David Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:16:03 -0800 (PST)

From: "Michael Chan" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:29:56 -0800

> Didn't we beat this topic to death last time?

Yes we did.

> Once again, the driver is tightly coupled with the firmware.  We don't
> want things to break when users upgrade or downgrade the kernel.  Coding
> the driver to deal with different firmware versions will add a lot of
> complexity.

I absolutely agree with Michael here.