From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: bhutchings@solarflare.com
Cc: ajitk@serverengines.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] ethtool: Add reset operation
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:28:40 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091007.012840.78212772.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1254481219.23350.77.camel@localhost>
From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:00:19 +0100
> On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 16:10 +0530, Ajit Khaparde wrote:
> [...]
>> Can you tell the intention behind this copy_to_user?
>> Do you envision drivers sending back some data to the userland - may be
>> sometime in future?
>
> This allows userland to see which components were actually reset.
Patch applied, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-07 8:28 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
2009-10-02 10:40 ` Ajit Khaparde
2009-10-02 11:00 ` Ben Hutchings
2009-10-07 8:28 ` David Miller [this message]
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