netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 4/8] net/funeth: ethtool operations

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Date:   Thu, 30 Dec 2021 12:30:34 -0800
From:   Dimitris Michailidis <d.michailidis@...gible.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, davem@...emloft.net,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/8] net/funeth: ethtool operations

On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 12:22 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 19:04:08 +0100 Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > +static void fun_get_drvinfo(struct net_device *netdev,
> > > +                       struct ethtool_drvinfo *info)
> > > +{
> > > +   const struct funeth_priv *fp = netdev_priv(netdev);
> > > +
> > > +   strscpy(info->driver, KBUILD_MODNAME, sizeof(info->driver));
> > > +   strcpy(info->fw_version, "N/A");
> >
> > Don't set it, if you have nothing useful to put in it.
>
> Also, if user has no way of reading the firmware version how do they
> know when to update the FW in the flash? FW flashing seems pointless
> without knowing the current FW version.

It will be available, but FW hasn't settled on the API for it yet.
There are several FW images on the devices, one will be reported here but
will rely on devlink for the full set.