netdev - Re: [RFC] New functions to manipulate registers for ethtool

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Message-Id: <20081208.005431.200957157.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:54:31 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mitake@...stcom.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	ktaka@...stcom.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] New functions to manipulate registers for ethtool

From: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@...stcom.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 17:12:30 +0900

> I want to add two new functions to ethtool.
> 
> One is for setting driver's registers on MMIO area like
> --change-eeprom option.

You can map the registers into userspace using the bus
level mmap facilities exported to userspace.

No ethtool support is necessary for this.

> Another function is for reading driver's register on MMIO.

Also not necessary, for the same reasons described
above.
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