[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915/guc: Use major_minor version for filename

[David Weinehall]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 04:22:10PM -0700, tom.orourke at intel.com wrote:
> From: Tom O'Rourke <Tom.O'Rourke at intel.com>
> 
> Load guc firmware from file with major_minor number
> in filename instead of using symolic link with only
> major number.

What's the justification for this change? Either a release
breaks ABI (or has fixes that are so important that they're
worth treating as equivalent to an ABI-break) and thus warrants
a major-number bump, or it's a minor (non-ABI-breaking) fix,
which would then fit fine within a minor number bump.

Since the firmware is released separately from the driver
this will most likely lead to more cases where the system ends up
running without any firmware loaded at all. Is that case better
than having an older revision of the same major release of the
firmware?


Kind regards, David Weinehall