From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: ethtool patch to support bypass / fail-to-wire function Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 11:35:58 -0700 Message-ID: <20140611113558.6d0c6296@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> References: <3BFAEADE799AF145974162DF00E013AF018F794DE5@exchange2010.silicom.local> <1402322812.23860.76.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> <3BFAEADE799AF145974162DF00E013AF018F798C22@exchange2010.silicom.local> <20140611091757.78e1002d@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> <3BFAEADE799AF145974162DF00E013AF018F79A137@exchange2010.silicom.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , Elad Blatt To: David Hendel Return-path: Received: from mail-pd0-f175.google.com ([209.85.192.175]:60674 "EHLO mail-pd0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753293AbaFKSgC (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2014 14:36:02 -0400 Received: by mail-pd0-f175.google.com with SMTP id z10so91038pdj.20 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2014 11:36:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <3BFAEADE799AF145974162DF00E013AF018F79A137@exchange2010.silicom.local> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 16:55:27 +0000 David Hendel wrote: > Stephen, > OK, so what should be the next step? How do we move forward with that? > > Regards, David > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:stephen@networkplumber.org] > Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 7:18 PM > To: David Hendel > Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; Elad Blatt > Subject: Re: ethtool patch to support bypass / fail-to-wire function > > The driver using this is not upstream. You need to get that driver reviewed and incorporated in upstream kernel before the changes to ethtool will be considered. > > I expect that the driver will not be accepted as is, and therefore you will have to make changes (including API changes), that render this ethtool API moot. > > Read kernel/Documentation/SubmittingPatches