netdev - Re: [PATCH NEXT 02/10] qlcnic: add api version in reg dump

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Date:	Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:26:45 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@...gic.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	ameen.rahman@...gic.com,
	Rajesh Borundia <rajesh.borundia@...gic.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH NEXT 02/10] qlcnic: add api version in reg dump

On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 07:29 -0700, Amit Kumar Salecha wrote:
[...]
> @@ -345,7 +346,10 @@ qlcnic_get_regs(struct net_device *dev, struct ethtool_regs *regs, void *p)
>  	regs->version = (1 << 24) | (adapter->ahw.revision_id << 16) |
>  	    (adapter->pdev)->device;
>  
> -	for (i = 0; diag_registers[i] != -1; i++)
> +	regs_buff[0] = (0xcafe0000 | (QLCNIC_DEV_INFO_SIZE & 0xffff));
> +	regs_buff[1] = QLCNIC_MGMT_API_VERSION;
> +
> +	for (i = 2; diag_registers[i] != -1; i++)
>  		regs_buff[i] = QLCRD32(adapter, diag_registers[i]);
>  
>  	if (!test_bit(__QLCNIC_DEV_UP, &adapter->state))

You should either bump the version number or put this extra information
at the end of the register dump, not the beginning.

Ben.

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