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Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 21:13:46 -0500
From: Abraham Arce <abraham.arce.moreno@...il.com>
To: Sebastien Jan <s-jan@...com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Ben Dooks <ben@...tec.co.uk>,
Abraham Arce <x0066660@...com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] ks8851: support for read/write MAC address from
EEPROM
Hi,
> I needed to program a mac address to the companion eeprom of our ks8851, and
> wrote the following patches, which use debug-fs as interface.
>
> I then realized that this seemed not the usual way to access net controller
> eeproms (ethtool seems the more standard way).
>
> I am very interesed in getting your feedbacks on the following:
> 1) Does it make any sense to you to use this debug-fs interface to read/write
> the mac address (advantage: no need for user to know how ks8851 manages the
> eeprom / alignment / offset), and can it be upstreamed?
> 2) Must a more generic eeprom access be implemented through ethtool (or another
> interface?)? Is it the only choice or can it coexist with option 1)? (most of
> code would be common)
> 3) Any feedback regarding the code itself or anything else is very welcome!
>
Does anyone could guide us about the implementation done by Sebastien?
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/48880/
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/48881/
Best Regards
Abraham
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