netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net/ethtool: Add support for the ethtool feature to flash firmware image from a specified file.

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Date:	Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:10:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ajitk@...verengines.com
Cc:	jgarzik@...ox.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net/ethtool: Add support for the ethtool
 feature to flash firmware image from a specified file.

From: Ajit Khaparde <ajitk@...verengines.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 08:32:55 +0530

> 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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajitk@...verengines.com>

Applied to net-next-2.6, thanks.
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