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Message-ID: <20091001061357.GA4236@serverengines.com> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:43:59 +0530 From: Ajit Khaparde <ajitk@...verengines.com> To: davem@...emloft.net, jgarzik@...ox.com Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ethtool: Add a new ethtool option to flash a firmware image from the specified file to a device. On 03/09/09 08:33 +0530, Ajit Khaparde wrote: > This patch adds a new "-f" option to the ethtool utility > to flash a firmware image specified by a file, to a network device. > The filename is passed to the network driver which will flash the image > on the chip 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. > > Usage: > ethtool -f <interface name> <filename of firmware image> > > ethtool -f <interface name> <filename of firmware image> [ REGION-NUMBER-TO-FLASH ] > > Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajitk@...verengines.com> When will this change make it to the ethtool source? Anything that I need to do from my side? I hope this is the right place to submit such changes. Thanks -Ajit -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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