From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Should "N/A" dust bunnies be swept from fw_version?
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:27:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EC5984D.5070501@hp.com> (raw)
In the discussion on "enable virtio_net to return bus_info in ethtool -i
consistent with emulated NICs" Ben Hutchings had the following feedback
on what might go into bus_info:
> Please use the existing 'not implemented' value, which is the empty
> string. If you think ethtool should print some helpful message instead
> of an empty string, please submit a patch for ethtool.
When I was sweeping in the .get_drvinfo routines, I noticed many drivers
would return "N/A" for fw_version - presumably they were drivers for
cards without firmware. Should those be removed to have the fw_version
be the empty string, or should those sleeping dust bunnies be allowed to
lie?
rick jones
next reply other threads:[~2011-11-17 23:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-17 23:27 Rick Jones [this message]
2011-11-18 0:19 ` Should "N/A" dust bunnies be swept from fw_version? Ben Hutchings
2011-11-18 19:09 ` Rick Jones
2011-11-18 19:10 ` David Miller
2011-11-18 19:23 ` Rick Jones
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