diff --git a/drivers/staging/rdma/hfi1/common.h b/drivers/staging/rdma/hfi1/common.h
index de62cbe2224c80c61c8093e1e70173495a6b2820..5e203239c5b043e826e0c5e801665a7a7995e261 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rdma/hfi1/common.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/rdma/hfi1/common.h
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@
  * to the driver itself, not the software interfaces it supports.
  */
 #ifndef HFI1_DRIVER_VERSION_BASE
-#define HFI1_DRIVER_VERSION_BASE "0.9-248"
+#define HFI1_DRIVER_VERSION_BASE "0.9-294"
 #endif
 
 /* create the final driver version string */