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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: bhutchings@solarflare.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] ethtool: Add reset operation
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:14:24 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091001.131424.157091984.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1254426195.2735.16.camel@achroite>

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:43:15 +0100

> After updating firmware stored in flash, users may wish to reset the
> relevant hardware and start the new firmware immediately.  This should
> not be completely automatic as it may be disruptive.
> 
> A selective reset may also be useful for debugging or diagnostics.
> 
> This adds a separate reset operation which takes flags indicating the
> components to be reset.  Drivers are allowed to reset only a subset of
> those requested, and must report the actual subset.  This allows the
> use of generic component masks and some future expansion.

This looks fine to me.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-01 20:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-01 19:43 [RFC][PATCH] ethtool: Add reset operation Ben Hutchings
2009-10-01 20:14 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-10-02 10:40 ` Ajit Khaparde
2009-10-02 11:00   ` Ben Hutchings
2009-10-07  8:28     ` David Miller

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