netdev - Re: [PATCH] ethtool: Support et131x registers in -d

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Date:	Thu, 8 Nov 2012 19:25:57 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Mark Einon <mark.einon@...il.com>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ethtool: Support et131x registers in -d

On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 21:57 +0000, Mark Einon wrote:
> The et131x register set contains useful details of RX/TX queues for
> the device. This dumps them with the -d option.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Einon <mark.einon@...il.com>

Applied, thanks.  However:

[...]
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/et131x.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,120 @@
> +#include <stdio.h>
> +#include <string.h>
> +#include "internal.h"
> +
> +int et131x_dump_regs(struct ethtool_drvinfo *info, struct ethtool_regs *regs)
> +{
> +	u32 *reg = (u32 *)regs->data;
> +
> +	fprintf(stdout, "PHY Registers\n");
[...]

In case you need to change the dump format later, it might be worth
adding a version check here.  But if you're confident that you'll only
ever append to the dump format, this should be fine for now.

Ben.

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