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Use MAJOR.MINOR format for QLink firmware protocol. MAJOR part is incremented when backward compatibility is broken. Normally this part should not be incremented unless there is a good reason for that. MINOR part is incremented each time when new features are added to qlink.h, e.g. new TLVs, events, commands. These changes should not break backward compatibility. For instance, older firmware versions may not be able to parse new flags or send new types of events, but this does not impact normal system operations. As part of initialization sequence, driver requests protocol version from firmware and refuses to start in case there is a mismatch in MAJOR part of the version. Signed-off-by: Igor Mitsyanko <igor.mitsyanko.os@quantenna.com> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.