From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] ethtool: flie option to register dump Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:06:46 -0700 Message-ID: <20061023130646.43860b79@freekitty> References: <20061018104632.27a37d75@freekitty> <20061023105142.13b507a7@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> <20061023105703.5f1e13eb@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> <200610241150.19609.netdev@axxeo.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jeff Garzik , netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:5065 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422800AbWJYQW4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:22:56 -0400 To: Ingo Oeser In-Reply-To: <200610241150.19609.netdev@axxeo.de> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:50:19 +0200 Ingo Oeser wrote: > Hi Stephen, > > Stephen Hemminger schrieb: > > Add ability to take old raw dumps from a file and decode them. > > It is kind of limited because you still need to have same device > > as the raw file, but useful for maintainers to decode raw dumps. > > What about putting the (Permanent) MAC into the first 4-6 octets > of the hexdump and decode+check+warn using this info first > to avoid mixing up files? > > Maybe only the first 4 octets to enhance privacy and still being able > to detect known "bad" series. > > This might prevent user errors when sending such files > to developers. > > Regards > > Ingo Oeser The existing output format for raw is fine for piping into utilities like hexdump -- Stephen Hemminger