Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Sep 2018 14:09:06 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] net/mlx4_core: print firmware version during driver loading | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Qing Huang <qing.huang@oracle.com> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 10:15:48 -0700
> IMHO, this information is very useful and only takes up very little > log file space. :-)
If it's critical then the log is the wrong place for it as the log is lossy.
The proper place to obtain this information is via the fw_version field of the ethtool_drvinfo struct. This can be obtained at any time and is reliable. And if it isn't reliable or correct, we must fix that.
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