Message-ID: <312743.30438.qm@web161611.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:09:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: Walter Goldens <goldenstranger@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rt2800pci: rt2800usb: Firmware update
To: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com>
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gwingerde@gmail.com,
	ben@decadent.org.uk, users@rt2x00.serialmonkey.com,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	Shiang Tu <shiang_tu@ralinktech.com>
In-Reply-To: <4DA33FFD.5070004@gmail.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org

> > Are there any changelogs for these firmware files? Do
> they
> > only offer support for newer chips, or are there any
> actual
> > improvements and bug fixes implemented? Users should
> know
> > whether updating the firmware will be of any use to
> them.
> 
> Shiang Tu from ralink says [1] :
> "We always suggest to use latest firmware, because it's
> backward
> compatible and also has some enhancement, bug fix, or
> support of new
> chip.

Sorry, but how very ... Microsoft-y of Ralink.
Something has changed, a bug, an improvement, but we are to guess what it is?
Maybe if people knew how these firmware files affect different generations of chips, they'd knew how to maintain them better. I think this contributes to the mess here.