From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Cc: hayeswang <hayeswang@realtek.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net/r8169: update the new parser for the new firmware
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:50:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1308322219.2831.1.camel@bwh-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110617125300.GA2193@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 14:53 +0200, Francois Romieu wrote:
> Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> :
> [...]
> > I thought the idea of embedding a version here was to be able to report
> > in in get_drvinfo, not to print it on load.
>
> Reporting the version for the new firmware format through ethtool is
> currently hacked on.
>
> Do you want the load time version / format messages removed ?
>
> I think they can be of some use - at least temporarily - but I won't mind
> removing them now.
I don't care one way or the other. But it's more important to report
the version through get_drvinfo.
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-17 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-15 3:45 [PATCH v2] net/r8169: update the new parser for the new firmware Hayes Wang
2011-06-16 22:59 ` Francois Romieu
2011-06-17 3:25 ` hayeswang
2011-06-17 6:39 ` Francois Romieu
2011-06-17 12:22 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-06-17 12:53 ` Francois Romieu
2011-06-17 14:50 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
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