Need to match driver to microcode?

[Larry Finger]

On 02/05/2014 04:58 PM, grarpamp wrote:
> For the same core number, is it necessary to update
> the b43 driver when a new microcode is added? Or
> does the API/addressing into the microcode stay
> the same across microcode updates?
>
> ie: Were any updates to the driver needed to support
> the span from say 478.104 to 784.2 of the microcode
> for any of the cores already present in 478.104?
>
> I'm not seeing anything obvious to that effect in the
> short summaries here:
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/drivers/net/wireless/b43

Throughout the life of the b43 driver, there have been changes in the microcode 
that required changes in the driver; however all of them predate version 
478.104. With that said, I have not tested anything newer than 666.x. Where did 
you get version 784.2?

Larry