From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: "Amit S. Kale" <amitkale@linsyssoft.com>
Cc: "Amit S. Kale" <amitkale@netxen.com>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netxen: sparse warning and ioctl bug fixes
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 08:30:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061206083036.3de22974@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200612062140.35176.amitkale@linsyssoft.com>
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 21:40:34 +0530
"Amit S. Kale" <amitkale@linsyssoft.com> wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> This patch looks good.
>
> ioctls: NetXen chip is far more generic and will eventually show a significant
> amount of functionality in different products. We need ioctl analysis for
> user level tools that can tell states of registers etc. Removing ioctls all
> together will make any analysis from userland extremely difficult.
Use (and extend) existing ethtool interface to get registers and statistics.
>
> Does anyone have ideas on improving this ioctl interface?
>
> Thanks.
> -Amit
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-06 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-05 20:07 [PATCH] netxen: sparse warning and ioctl bug fixes Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-06 16:10 ` Amit S. Kale
2006-12-06 16:30 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2006-12-07 10:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-07 10:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-15 15:57 ` [PATCH] netxen: remove private ioctl Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-15 16:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-27 5:36 ` Amit S. Kale
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