From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com>
To: Eugene Krasnikov <k.eugene.e@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Version number policy!
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Eugene Krasnikov <k.eugene.e@gmail.com> writes:

> Good point regarding timestamp.
>
> When it comes to feature bitmap do you have an example of such a
> bitmap from carl9170? Why not to rely always on major version?

I'm with Christian here. In ath6kl we switched to firmware advertising
feature capabilities and I have never looked back, it's so much easier.
You don't need to do any mapping between firmware versions and features,
you just deal one feature at a time.

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Kalle Valo