From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ajit Khaparde Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH][v5] net/ethtool: Add support for the ethtool feature to flash firmware image from a specified file. Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 21:20:09 +0530 Message-ID: <20090902155006.GA22314@serverengines.com> References: <20090821165416.GA17102@serverengines.com> Reply-To: Ajit Khaparde Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: davem@davemloft.net, jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from segment-124-30.sify.net ([124.30.166.146]:57086 "EHLO akhaparde.serverengines.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752435AbZIBPt5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Sep 2009 11:49:57 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090821165416.GA17102@serverengines.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 21/08/09 22:24 +0530, Ajit Khaparde wrote: > 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. David, Is this patch good enough for being accepted? Please let me know if any more work has to be done on this. Also, I want to send the changes to the be2net driver which would use this ethtool feature. Any ETA for applying the patch to the git tree? I will schedule my driver patch according to that. Thanks -Ajit