From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: Use of 'SIOCDEVPRIVATE' in ethernet drivers. Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 21:09:35 +0000 Message-ID: <1389301775.2025.43.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.level5networks.com> References: <124064C45E1FC84193A69A61ED3A1F46E22D07@AVMB1.qlogic.org> <20140107.140520.1985936966889106257.davem@davemloft.net> <124064C45E1FC84193A69A61ED3A1F46E230D6@AVMB1.qlogic.org> <20140107154456.7e5af377@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> <124064C45E1FC84193A69A61ED3A1F46E2331F@AVMB1.qlogic.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Stephen Hemminger , David Miller , netdev To: Giri Reddy Return-path: Received: from webmail.solarflare.com ([12.187.104.25]:26633 "EHLO webmail.solarflare.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753095AbaAIVJj (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jan 2014 16:09:39 -0500 In-Reply-To: <124064C45E1FC84193A69A61ED3A1F46E2331F@AVMB1.qlogic.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2014-01-08 at 16:02 +0000, Giri Reddy wrote: > Thanks for the input. I will explore the 'ethtool' option. We will have > multiple control frames exchanged between user space and kernel for > every flash update operation, most of this will be proprietary stuff > that will get exchanged - I will explore how to provide a generic > interface for that. [...] What you need to do beyond read, write, erase and reset? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Staff 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.