netdev - RE: [PATCH v2 08/16] mlx4_en: Reporting HW revision in ethtool -i

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Date:	Thu, 24 Mar 2011 06:26:22 +0000
From:	Yevgeny Petrilin <yevgenyp@...lanox.co.il>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
CC:	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Eugenia Emantayev <eugenia@...lanox.co.il>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 08/16] mlx4_en: Reporting HW revision in ethtool -i

I will send the patch removing the HW information.

Yevgeny

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Hutchings [mailto:bhutchings@...arflare.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 5:40 AM
> To: Yevgeny Petrilin
> Cc: davem@...emloft.net; netdev@...r.kernel.org; Eugenia Emantayev
> Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 08/16] mlx4_en: Reporting HW revision in ethtool
> -i
> 
> On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 15:10 +0000, Yevgeny Petrilin wrote:
> > >
> > > This is an abuse of the ethtool_drvinfo::driver field.
> > >
> > > Your users can use lspci -v, can't they?
> > >
> > I don't think there is a problem here.
> > We have always reported the HW model via Ethtool, we just expanded
> the information
> > we provide.
> > Our users prefer to see the information in ethtool.
> 
> I can provide a patch for David if you won't.
> 
> Ben.
> 
> --
> Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
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