netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 00/10] nfp: enhanced debug dump via ethtool

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Date:   Tue, 05 Dec 2017 15:01:22 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     simon.horman@...ronome.com
Cc:     jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        oss-drivers@...ronome.com, carl.heymann@...ronome.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/10] nfp: enhanced debug dump via ethtool

From: Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>
Date: Mon,  4 Dec 2017 23:34:11 +0100

> Add debug dump implementation to the NFP driver. This makes use of
> existing ethtool infrastructure.  ethtool -W is used to select the dump
> level and ethtool -w is used to dump NFP state.
> 
> The existing behaviour of dump level 0, dumping the arm.diag resource, is
> preserved. Dump levels greater than 0 are implemented by this patchset and
> optionally supported by firmware providing a _abi_dump_spec rtsym. This
> rtsym provides a specification, in TLV format, of the information to be
> dumped from the NFP at each supported dump level.
> 
> Dumps are also structured using a TLVs. They consist a prolog and the data
> described int he corresponding dump.

Series applied, thanks Simon.