Re: [PATCH 12/15] BE NIC driver - f/w header files

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To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...>
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Date: Friday, May 16, 2008 - 12:21 pm

Stephen,

ioctl is a misleading name here.
These are not interfaces between the driver and
the OS or driver and applications like what ioctls
normally do.  Like standard NIC drivers,
ethtool is the only mechanism implemented by this 
driver to configure the NIC.  These defines pertain 
to low level messages that are passed between beclib and 
the NIC f/w to initialize and configure the NIC.   
Several of these  low level messages are not necessary
to use this card as a NIC and we could
probably remove them.  Does it make things better ?

Thanks.

Subbu


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From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:shemminger@vyatta.com]
To: Subbu Seetharaman [mailto:subbus@serverengines.com]
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Sent: Thu, 15 May 2008 13:25:19 -0700
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/15] BE NIC driver - f/w header files


On Thu, 15 May 2008 02:46:14 -0700
"Subbu Seetharaman" <subbus@serverengines.com> wrote:



No, a large device specific management interface using ioctl's (with no documentation)
is not going to be accepted.

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