From patchwork Fri Mar 18 21:06:23 2011 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Ajit Khaparde X-Patchwork-Id: 87579 X-Patchwork-Delegate: davem@davemloft.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C8CEB6F73 for ; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 08:07:28 +1100 (EST) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932130Ab1CRVHY (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:07:24 -0400 Received: from exht1.emulex.com ([138.239.113.183]:16150 "EHLO exht1.ad.emulex.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757444Ab1CRVHX (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:07:23 -0400 Received: from akhaparde-VBox (138.239.155.58) by exht1.ad.emulex.com (138.239.113.183) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.3.137.0; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:07:02 -0700 Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:06:23 -0500 From: Ajit Khaparde To: CC: , Subject: [RFC] ethtool: Display reg dump length via get driver info. Reply-To: Ajit Khaparde MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline X-URL: http://www.emulex.com Organization: Emulex Corp User-Agent: "Ajit's Mutt" X-OS: Linux i686 Message-ID: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org Devices like BE store Reg Dump Data in the hardware. This change will allow to just peek into the hardware to see if any data is available for a dump and analysis, without actually dumping the register data. Patch: ---- Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde --- ethtool.c | 6 ++++-- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/ethtool.c b/ethtool.c index e9cb2c9..a0c7c99 100644 --- a/ethtool.c +++ b/ethtool.c @@ -1423,11 +1423,13 @@ static int dump_drvinfo(struct ethtool_drvinfo *info) "driver: %s\n" "version: %s\n" "firmware-version: %s\n" - "bus-info: %s\n", + "bus-info: %s\n" + "regdump-len: %d\n", info->driver, info->version, info->fw_version, - info->bus_info); + info->bus_info, + info->regdump_len); return 0; }