From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: ajitk@serverengines.com
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net/ethtool: Add support for the ethtool feature to flash firmware image from a specified file.
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:10:07 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090902.231007.117713606.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090903030241.GA19390@serverengines.com>
From: Ajit Khaparde <ajitk@serverengines.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 08:32:55 +0530
> This patch adds support to flash a firmware image to a device using ethtool.
> The driver gets the filename of the firmware image and flashes the image
> using the request firmware path.
>
> The region "on the chip" to be flashed can be specified by an option.
> It is upto the device driver to enumerate the region number passed by ethtool,
> to the region to be flashed.
>
> The default behavior is to flash all the regions on the chip.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajitk@serverengines.com>
Applied to net-next-2.6, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-03 6:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-03 3:02 [PATCH net-next-2.6] net/ethtool: Add support for the ethtool feature to flash firmware image from a specified file Ajit Khaparde
2009-09-03 5:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-09-03 5:43 ` David Miller
2009-09-03 5:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-09-03 6:10 ` David Miller [this message]
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