netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] Export firmware assigned labels of network devices to sysfs

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Date:	Fri, 28 May 2010 23:51:40 -0500
From:	"Domsch, Matt" <Matt_Domsch@...l.com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	"K, Narendra" <Narendra_K@...l.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-hotplug@...r.kernel.org" <linux-hotplug@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Hargrave, Jordan" <Jordan_Hargrave@...l.com>,
	"Rose, Charles" <Charles_Rose@...l.com>,
	"Nijhawan, Vijay" <Vijay_Nijhawan@...l.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Export firmware assigned labels of network devices
 to sysfs

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 05:27:45PM -0500, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 01:11:00PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 08:40:41AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 06:55:21AM -0500, K, Narendra wrote:
> > > > +static const char dell_dsm_uuid[] = {
> > > 
> > > Um, a dell specific uuid in a generic file?  What happens when we need
> > > to support another manufacturer?
> > > 
> > > > +       0xD0, 0x37, 0xC9, 0xE5, 0x53, 0x35, 0x7A, 0x4D,
> > > > +       0x91, 0x17, 0xEA, 0x4D, 0x19, 0xC3, 0x43, 0x4D
> > > > +};
> > 
> > This simply needs to be renamed.  It's defined in the ECN, so will be
> > part of the spec, and is not vendor-unique, but defined once for all
> > implementations.  It separates this _DSM function from others.
> 
> Ok, that makes a bit more sense.
> 
> Care to post that ECN publically?  And no, the Linux Foundation does not
> have a PCI-SIG membership, the PCI-SIG keeps forbidding it.  Other
> operating systems are allowed to join but not Linux.  Strange but
> true...

I'm looking into it, and should know more next week.

-- 
Matt Domsch
Technology Strategist
Dell | Office of the CTO
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