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authorShannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com>2014-05-29 06:55:59 +0000
committerJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>2014-05-29 05:55:44 -0700
commit7e612411e70a99272964045fdf898668fe95308d (patch)
tree3be122479b21779ffc471e49fb8fd5429887a5df
parent0efe124008319b7da3d678bf4f433d99eb785711 (diff)
downloadlinux-7e612411e70a99272964045fdf898668fe95308d.tar.bz2
i40e: relax the firmware API version check
As long as the Firmware isn't reporting a higher API major version number than what the driver knows about, the driver does not need to worry as much about greater minor numbers. The API changes minor numbers when things get added to the API, but no existing structs or calls are changed. The driver has the option of warning that the minor numbers don't match. This will allow a little more flexibility in handling newer NICs and NVMs in the field. Change-ID: I5302acd2d147a2992328991ee7223b2ff39c8741 Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com> Tested-by: Jim Young <jamesx.m.young@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_adminq.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_adminq.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_adminq.c
index 34415d342ece..ba2811be8be4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_adminq.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_adminq.c
@@ -587,8 +587,7 @@ i40e_status i40e_init_adminq(struct i40e_hw *hw)
i40e_read_nvm_word(hw, I40E_SR_NVM_EETRACK_HI, &eetrack_hi);
hw->nvm.eetrack = (eetrack_hi << 16) | eetrack_lo;
- if (hw->aq.api_maj_ver != I40E_FW_API_VERSION_MAJOR ||
- hw->aq.api_min_ver > I40E_FW_API_VERSION_MINOR) {
+ if (hw->aq.api_maj_ver > I40E_FW_API_VERSION_MAJOR) {
ret_code = I40E_ERR_FIRMWARE_API_VERSION;
goto init_adminq_free_arq;
}