From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller 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) Message-ID: <20090902.231007.117713606.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20090903030241.GA19390@serverengines.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: ajitk@serverengines.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:41285 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754452AbZICGJw (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Sep 2009 02:09:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090903030241.GA19390@serverengines.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Ajit Khaparde 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 Applied to net-next-2.6, thanks.