From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: mitake@clustcom.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ktaka@clustcom.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] New functions to manipulate registers for ethtool
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:01:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <58622.1228726903@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:54:31 PST." <20081208.005431.200957157.davem@davemloft.net>
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On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:54:31 PST, David Miller said:
> From: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@clustcom.com>
> Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 17:12:30 +0900
>
> > I want to add two new functions to ethtool.
> >
> > One is for setting driver's registers on MMIO area like
> > --change-eeprom option.
>
> You can map the registers into userspace using the bus
> level mmap facilities exported to userspace.
>
> No ethtool support is necessary for this.
Yes, but if Hitoshi wants to tell a user "run this command and send me
the output", what's the incantation the user needs to use?
The user probably has ethtool installed if they have a semi-sane distro.
Their eyeballs are just gonna glaze over if they're asked to map the registers
into userspace.. ;)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-08 9:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-08 8:12 Hitoshi Mitake
2008-12-08 8:54 ` David Miller
2008-12-08 9:01 ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2008-12-08 9:06 ` David Miller
2008-12-08 9:26 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-12-08 9:57 ` David Miller
2008-12-08 17:36 ` Brandeburg, Jesse
2008-12-10 11:26 ` Hitoshi Mitake
2008-12-08 9:01 ` Hitoshi Mitake
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