Michael Chan schrieb: > On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 10:14 +0200, Ingo Oeser wrote: > > Is it enough to parse the first number in the firmware via simple_strtoul()? > > No, it's not. We need to check the number after the '.' and possibly an > alphabet at the end as well. Worse yet, the version may be different > for different chips.
Ah, I see. I thought the first number is some constantly increasing internal version number from your SCM[1] and the other is the "marketing release number". Thank you for explaining this. And that different version for different chips issue make it really hard. I can see that now. > We'll see if we can come up with a simple way to detect the problem. That would help your users (like the customers of my employer). Admins and system vendors will love you for that :-) Best Regards Ingo Oeser [1] Source Control Management e.g. cvs, subversion, git - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
