-----Original Message----- From: york sun [mailto:york.sun@nxp.com] Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 10:49 PM To: Prabhakar Kushwaha prabhakar@freescale.com; u-boot@lists.denx.de Cc: Yusong Sun yorksun@freescale.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] driver: net: fsl-mc: Add version check for MC objects
On 12/24/2015 02:02 AM, Prabhakar Kushwaha wrote:
Check and compare version of management complex's object with the version supported by Freescale ldpaa2 ethernet driver.
Signed-off-by: Prabhakar Kushwaha prabhakar@freescale.com
drivers/net/fsl-mc/mc.c | 51
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
drivers/net/ldpaa_eth/ldpaa_eth.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
The driver is not backward compatible, is it? Looks like every time the firmware upgrades, the driver changes.
Yes, driver is not backward compatible. Each Firmware new version changes lots of things including APIs. It is still getting stable.
--prabhakar