netdev - Re: [PATCH] ethtool: Uncook tg3 regdump output

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Message-ID: <1314829530.3274.42.camel@bwh-desktop>
Date:	Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:25:30 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Matt Carlson <mcarlson@...adcom.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ethtool: Uncook tg3 regdump output

On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 19:02 -0700, Matt Carlson wrote:
> tg3 devices have changed a lot since the bcm5700 days.  Register blocks
> have been added, removed and redefined.  The existing tg3 register dump
> code has not kept up.
> 
> This patch changes the tg3_dump_regs() function to be more simplistic.
> Rather than attempting to locate where meaningful data is, it will
> instead print the registers as 32-bit values, omitting all registers
> that have a value of zero.  By performing the output this way, we hope
> to future-proof the interface.
[...]

Applied.

Ben.

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