netdev - Re: [RFC][PATCH][v5] net/ethtool: Add support for the ethtool feature to flash firmware image from a specified file.

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Message-ID: <4A9EA1D7.8090002@pobox.com>
Date:	Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:48:23 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>
To:	Ajit Khaparde <ajitk@...verengines.com>
CC:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH][v5] net/ethtool: Add support for the ethtool feature
 to flash firmware image from a specified file.

On 09/02/2009 12:22 PM, Ajit Khaparde wrote:
> On 21/08/09 22:24 +0530, Ajit Khaparde wrote:
>> 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.
> David,
> Is this patch good enough for being accepted? Please let me know if any more
> work has to be done on this.
>
> I want to send the changes to the be2net driver which would use this
> new ethtool feature.  Any ETA for applying the patch to the git tree?
> I will schedule my driver patch according to that.

BTW, don't forget to update the ethtool userland utility as well,
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/ethtool/ethtool.git

	Jeff



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