From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH][v5] net/ethtool: Add support for the ethtool feature to flash firmware image from a specified file. Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:48:23 -0400 Message-ID: <4A9EA1D7.8090002@pobox.com> References: <20090821165416.GA17102@serverengines.com> <20090902162241.GB23228@serverengines.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Ajit Khaparde Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:58798 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751607AbZIBQs1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Sep 2009 12:48:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090902162241.GB23228@serverengines.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 09/02/2009 12:22 PM, Ajit Khaparde wrote: > 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. > > I want to send the changes to the be2net driver which would use this > new ethtool feature. Any ETA for applying the patch to the git tree? > I will schedule my driver patch according to that. BTW, don't forget to update the ethtool userland utility as well, git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/ethtool/ethtool.git Jeff