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

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Date:	Fri, 10 Jan 2014 03:45:32 +0000
From:	Giri Reddy <giri.reddy@...gic.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
CC:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Use of 'SIOCDEVPRIVATE' in ethernet drivers.

On 1/9/14 1:09 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-01-08 at 16:02 +0000, Giri Reddy wrote:
>> 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.
> [...]
>
> What you need to do beyond read, write, erase and reset?

Thanks for detailed note about various options for firmware update in
the other email. Aside form the payload we also want control frames
(proprietary) to be exchanged between our firmware and management
application.

Giri

>
> Ben.
>


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