netdev - Re: Use of 'SIOCDEVPRIVATE' in ethernet drivers.

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Message-ID: <124064C45E1FC84193A69A61ED3A1F46E230D6@AVMB1.qlogic.org>
Date:	Tue, 7 Jan 2014 22:22:45 +0000
From:	Giri Reddy <giri.reddy@...gic.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Use of 'SIOCDEVPRIVATE' in ethernet drivers.

On 1/7/14 11:05 AM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Giri Reddy <giri.reddy@...gic.com>
> Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 18:21:17 +0000
>
>> Are we still allowed to use 'SIOCDEVPRIVATE' in drivers if there the
>> deprecation efforts are on hold.
> To say that use of SIOCDEVPRIVATE is discouraged would be an
> understatement.
>
> Please create a generic ethtool based facility that other drivers in
> similar situations can use as well.

Thanks for the input. I will explore the 'ethtool' option. We will have
multiple control frames exchanged between user space and kernel for
every flash update operation, most of this will be proprietary stuff
that will get exchanged - I will explore how to provide a generic
interface for that.

Giri

>

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