netdev - Re: [RFC] p54: software hot-swap eeprom image

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Date:	Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:32:00 -0800
From:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com>
To:	Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>
Cc:	Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@...glemail.com>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] p54: software hot-swap eeprom image

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 20:27 +0100, Christian Lamparter wrote:
>> This (aggregated) patch adds a new sysfs file "eeprom_overwrite"
>> which can be used to upload an customized eeprom image to the
>> driver during normal operation.
>>
>> The old wlanX device will quickly vanish. And if the new EEPROM
>> image passes all sanity checks the device will reappear.
>>
>> Hopefully, this proves to be an adequate solution for everyone
>> with a bad/missing EEPROM data/chip.
>
> Honestly I wonder if this would be better done with ethtool.  There's
> already ethtool --eeprom-dump, would it be so hard to do an ethtool
> --eeprom-load ?
>
> I can see a number of devices doing this, so in my mind it makes sense
> to have a generic facility for this sort of thing.  But then again it's
> not so common an operation and its fraught with danger :)  Libertas
> could potentially use this, but libertas has *two* EEPROM images that it
> might need to update.  So if ethtool did grow --eeprom-load we may want
> to account for more than one eeprom image.
>
> What do people think?

Can't request_firmware() be generalized for this sort of stuff too?

  Luis
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