netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 08/16] mlx4_en: Reporting HW revision in ethtool -i

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Message-ID: <20110323085815.0a2cbcb0@nehalam>
Date:	Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:58:15 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Cc:	Yevgeny Petrilin <yevgenyp@...lanox.co.il>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Eugenia Emantayev <eugenia@...lanox.co.il>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 08/16] mlx4_en: Reporting HW revision in ethtool -i

On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:46:45 +0000
Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 15:10 +0000, Yevgeny Petrilin wrote:
> > > 
> > > This is an abuse of the ethtool_drvinfo::driver field.
> > > 
> > > Your users can use lspci -v, can't they?
> > > 
> > I don't think there is a problem here.
> > We have always reported the HW model via Ethtool, we just expanded the information
> > we provide.
> > Our users prefer to see the information in ethtool.
> 
> Do you mean 'we documented ethtool -i as the way to get hardware
> identification'?  That would be a bug in your documentation.

We need consistency among drivers in these fields.
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