From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422846AbWLUIQd (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:16:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422842AbWLUIQd (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:16:33 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:35660 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422839AbWLUIQc (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:16:32 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/10] cxgb3 - main source file From: Arjan van de Ven To: Divy Le Ray Cc: Divy Le Ray , jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, swise@opengridcomputing.com In-Reply-To: <4589CA9C.80007@chelsio.com> References: <20061220124134.6299.29373.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <1166623330.3365.1397.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4589CA9C.80007@chelsio.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:16:18 +0100 Message-Id: <1166688978.3365.1472.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 (2.8.2.1-2.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > They are used to parameter the HW: > register access, ethtool supports that, so shouldn't be an ioctl for sure > configuration of queue sets, on board memory > configuration, I'm sure ethtool can do that too > firmware load, etc ... and for this we have request_firmware() interface. adding device specific ioctl that duplicate functionality that exists or should exist in a generic way isn't really acceptable for 2.6 kernels anymore.... -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org