From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: [PATCH] ethtool: add the stmmac support Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 14:13:31 +0100 Message-ID: <1286457211.2271.7.camel@achroite.uk.solarflarecom.com> References: <1285667519-4621-1-git-send-email-peppe.cavallaro@st.com> <4CAC0AE8.2060808@st.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" To: Peppe CAVALLARO Return-path: Received: from mail.solarflare.com ([216.237.3.220]:8568 "EHLO exchange.solarflare.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754100Ab0JGNNe (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2010 09:13:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4CAC0AE8.2060808@st.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 07:36 +0200, Peppe CAVALLARO wrote: > Hello, > > On 09/28/2010 11:51 AM, Giuseppe CAVALLARO wrote: > > Add the stmmac support into the ethtool to > > dump both the Mac Core and Dma registers. > > Any news for this patch? > > The stmmac is now working on several platforms (not only on STM ST40 > based boxes). I think it's worth having the ethtool support for the driver. > > Welcome review and advice as usual. [...] You need to send ethtool patches to the ethtool maintainer, Jeff Garzik . I expect he'll make an ethtool release shortly after Linux 2.6.36, and will apply patches then. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.