netdev - Re: [PATCH] ethtool: fec: add pretty dump

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Date:   Thu, 14 Mar 2019 14:36:25 -0400
From:   "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
To:     Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ethtool: fec: add pretty dump

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:15:36AM -0500, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> Add pretty dump for the port registers of the "fec" kernel driver. Only
> offsets exposed by the driver are dumped by ethtool.
> 
> Both register dump versions are supported, version 2 which corresponds
> to the kernel compilation test:
> 
>     #if defined(CONFIG_M523x) || defined(CONFIG_M527x)
>     || defined(CONFIG_M528x) || defined(CONFIG_M520x)
>     || defined(CONFIG_M532x) || defined(CONFIG_ARM)
>     || defined(CONFIG_ARM64) || defined(CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST)
> 
> and version 1 which corresponds to the opposite test. At the same time,
> detail a few interesting registers of version 2.
> 
> Kernels not patched for setting this version will cause ethtool to
> dump the whole set of registers as it already does today.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>

Queued for next release -- thanks!

John
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