qtnfmac: use MAJOR.MINOR format for firmware protocol
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>
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