linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] dm9601: add support ethtool style utility

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Date:	Thu, 10 Mar 2016 13:17:45 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Joseph Chang <joseph_chang@...icom.com.tw>,
	'Joseph CHANG' <josright123@...il.com>,
	'Peter Korsgaard' <jacmet@...site.dk>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] dm9601: add support ethtool style utility

On Thu, 2016-03-10 at 20:51 +0800, Joseph Chang wrote:
> I did verify to dump EEPROM data and also write EEPROM by per byte.
> 
> 1.Plug dm9601/dm9621 adapter and has get dm9601.ko be 'insmod' to have 'eht0',
> 2.Run ethtool v3.7 (as attached executable file and it's help display.)
> 3. Commands:
>    ./ethtool -e eth0  (dump EEPROM data for all the .get_eeprom_len )
>    ./ethtool -E eth0 magic 0x9620 offset 0 value 0xf1  (write 0xf1 to eeprom byte0)
>    ./ethtool -E eth0 magic 0x9620 offset 1 value 0xf2  (write 0xf2 to eeprom byte1)
>    ./ethtool -E eth0 magic 0x9620 offset 2 value 0xf3  (write 0xf3 to eeprom byte2)
[...]

So you only tested writing 1 byte at a time.  Try again with 3 bytes
and you'll see how it goes wrong.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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