> Currently ethtool implementation does not have a way to pass the metadata for
> eeprom related operations. Some adapters have a complicated non-volatile
> memory implementation that requires additional information – there are drivers
> [bnx2x and bnxt] that use the ‘magic’ field in the {G,S}EEPROM for that
> purpose,
> although that’s not its intended usage.
>
> This patch adds a provision to pass the eeprom metadata for
> %ETHTOOL_SEEPROM/%ETHTOOL_GEEPROM implementations. User provided
> metadata will be cached by the driver and assigns a magic value which the
> application need to use for the subsequent {G,S}EEPROM command.
Hi Dave,
This got no comments at all.
What do you want us to with it next? Should we re-send it as a patch?
Thanks,
Yuval
