On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 00:33:08 +0200 Saeed Mahameed <sae...@mellanox.com> wrote:
> This simple ethool change will give HW vendors the flexibility to set > pure HW configurations (not directly related to netdev resources states > and rings), without the need of vendor proprietary tools and hacks. The danger is you need to restrict the kernel to only allow setting safe registers (and this is HW dependent). There are cases like secure boot where it is expected that even root is not allowed to modify all memory. Also supporting closed format of device registers is not in the interest of promoting open source. I am not saying I fundamentally disagree with supporting this, but it is a bigger step than you make it out to be.
