Actually, I *am* leaving the flag alone, but I'm also making the
following change too:

Index: isp.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/src/sys/dev/ic/isp.c,v
retrieving revision 1.17
diff -u -r1.17 isp.c
--- isp.c	1998/01/12 09:23:26	1.17
+++ isp.c	1998/01/28 08:49:31
@@ -265,11 +265,15 @@
 	}
 
 	/*
-	 * Download new Firmware, unless requested not to
-	 * or not appropriate to do so.
+	 * Download new Firmware, unless requested not to do so.
+	 * This is made slightly trickier in some cases where the
+	 * firmware of the ROM revision is newer than the revision
+	 * compiled into the driver. So, where we used to compare
+	 * versions of our f/w and the ROM f/w, now we just see
+	 * whether we have f/w at all and whether a config flag
+	 * has disabled our download.
 	 */
-	if ((isp->isp_fwrev >= isp->isp_mdvec->dv_fwrev) ||
-	    (cf_flags & 0x80) != 0) {
+	if (isp->isp_mdvec->dv_fwlen == 0 || (cf_flags & 0x80) != 0) {
 		dodnld = 0;
 	}