From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Ajit Khaparde <ajitk@serverengines.com>,
davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH][v5] net/ethtool: Add support for the ethtool feature to flash firmware image from a specified file.
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:00:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1251910819.2781.5.camel@achroite> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A9EA1D7.8090002@pobox.com>
On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 12:48 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On 09/02/2009 12:22 PM, Ajit Khaparde wrote:
> > On 21/08/09 22:24 +0530, Ajit Khaparde wrote:
> >> This patch adds support to flash a firmware image to a device using ethtool.
> >> The driver gets the filename of the firmware image and flashes the image
> >> using the request firmware path.
> >>
> >> The region "on the chip" to be flashed can be specified by an option.
> >> It is upto the device driver to enumerate the region number passed by ethtool,
> >> to the region to be flashed.
> >>
> >> The default behavior is to flash all the regions on the chip.
> > David,
> > Is this patch good enough for being accepted? Please let me know if any more
> > work has to be done on this.
> >
> > I want to send the changes to the be2net driver which would use this
> > new ethtool feature. Any ETA for applying the patch to the git tree?
> > I will schedule my driver patch according to that.
>
> BTW, don't forget to update the ethtool userland utility as well,
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/ethtool/ethtool.git
Ajit also posted a patch for ethtool on 21 August:
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/135785>.
Also, I sent you a series of patches back in April that you have
apparently ignored, although the corresponding kernel patches are in
2.6.31: <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/127025>.
Ben.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-21 16:54 [RFC][PATCH][v5] net/ethtool: Add support for the ethtool feature to flash firmware image from a specified file Ajit Khaparde
2009-09-02 15:50 ` Ajit Khaparde
2009-09-02 21:40 ` David Miller
2009-09-03 3:02 ` Ajit Khaparde
2009-09-02 16:22 ` Ajit Khaparde
2009-09-02 16:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-09-02 17:00 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
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