Ido Schimmel <ido...@idosch.org> writes: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 12:04:17AM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: >> But doesn't that mean you reflash the device with the minimum version, >> when in fact there could be a much newer version in /lib/firmware? > > No, because we always enforce the latest version we post to > linux-firmware. We try to keep firmware updates at a minimum, so if we > decided to post a new version it's either because the driver now > requires a feature from this version (which makes older versions > incompatible) or because a critical bug was fixed in that version.
If you consider the case of an older driver and a recent FW update that the driver didn't know about, then yes, such FW would be ignored. You can flash it by hand of course (ethtool -f), as long as it's on the right branch. Petr
