Re: [PATCH] ethtool: fix ethtool_get_regs() to work with zero length registers

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>]

On 07/20/2011 02:38 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 12:18 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> cfg80211 exports zero length register size as it currently only uses
>> struct ethtool_regs.version to export struct wiphy.hw_version.
> [...]
> 
> The ethtool_regs::version field represents the version of the register
> dump format.  This may or may not relate to a hardware version.
> 
> If you don't actually provide a register dump then don't implement this
> operation.

Then we have a problem as cfg80211 exports the hw version without any
register dumps:

static int cfg80211_get_regs_len(struct net_device *dev)
{
	/* For now, return 0... */
	return 0;
}

static void cfg80211_get_regs(struct net_device *dev, struct
ethtool_regs *regs,
			void *data)
{
	struct wireless_dev *wdev = dev->ieee80211_ptr;

	regs->version = wdev->wiphy->hw_version;
	regs->len = 0;
}

And this has been there a long time already. How cfg80211 should export
hw version if this is not a proper way?

Kalle