From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 RFC PATCH v2 00/13] ethtool: allow custom interval for Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 21:11:04 +0100 Message-ID: <1302725464.2873.7.camel@bwh-desktop> References: <20110413195146.25901.72193.stgit@gitlad.jf.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Bruce Allan Return-path: Received: from exchange.solarflare.com ([216.237.3.220]:47508 "EHLO exchange.solarflare.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757443Ab1DMULH (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:11:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20110413195146.25901.72193.stgit@gitlad.jf.intel.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 12:58 -0700, Bruce Allan wrote: > physical identification > > The following series changes the recently added ethtool set_phys_id > functions to allow drivers to provide a frequency at which to cycle > through an on/off identifier via software if/when the capability is > not provided by hardware. [...] The first patch leaves all the drivers broken temporarily. Since the change in each driver is trivial, I think you can squash this all into one patch. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.