From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ajit Khaparde Subject: Re: [PATCH] ethtool: Add a new ethtool option to flash a firmware image from the specified file to a device. Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:43:59 +0530 Message-ID: <20091001061357.GA4236@serverengines.com> References: <20090903030258.GA19401@serverengines.com> Reply-To: Ajit Khaparde Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: davem@davemloft.net, jgarzik@pobox.com Return-path: Received: from segment-124-30.sify.net ([124.30.166.146]:30739 "EHLO akhaparde.serverengines.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752271AbZJAGNu (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Oct 2009 02:13:50 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090903030258.GA19401@serverengines.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 03/09/09 08:33 +0530, Ajit Khaparde wrote: > This patch adds a new "-f" option to the ethtool utility > to flash a firmware image specified by a file, to a network device. > The filename is passed to the network driver which will flash the image > on the chip 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. > > Usage: > ethtool -f > > ethtool -f [ REGION-NUMBER-TO-FLASH ] > > Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde When will this change make it to the ethtool source? Anything that I need to do from my side? I hope this is the right place to submit such changes. Thanks -Ajit