From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Gunthorpe Subject: Re: [RFC] Proposal to address hfi1 UI and EPROM devices Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 13:20:24 -0600 Message-ID: <20160505192024.GA17249@obsidianresearch.com> References: <20160502195502.GA31800@phlsvsds.ph.intel.com> <72645a3b-5945-419a-d7af-1c065080e415@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <72645a3b-5945-419a-d7af-1c065080e415-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Doug Ledford Cc: Dennis Dalessandro , linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, mike.marciniszyn-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, ira.weiny-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, dean.luick-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, mitko.haralanov-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, jubin.john-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 05, 2016 at 02:57:01PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: > and the eeprom is written with the new data. If you need to do special > things, like Mellanox, in terms of recovering burned data like GIDs > or The 'eeprom' and device firmware are very different things. hfi1 has both, and uses request_firmware too. I've never heard of a driver using ethtool eeprom to deal with nv firmware like mlx has. AFAIK there is no kernel convention for that stuff. It is more common for storage than network drivers. Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html