Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754653AbZDTJzm (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:55:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752595AbZDTJza (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:55:30 -0400 Received: from mailbox2.myri.com ([64.172.73.26]:2006 "EHLO myri.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751473AbZDTJz3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:55:29 -0400 Message-ID: <49EC4683.3060605@myri.com> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:55:15 +0200 From: Brice Goglin User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090103) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stanislaw Gruszka CC: David Dillow , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Network Development list Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] myri10ge: allow per-board firmware overriding References: <49E7239B.4000309@myri.com> <20090417095038.49b745bf@dhcp-lab-109.englab.brq.redhat.com> <49EA1DAC.1000602@myri.com> <1240102617.5342.6.camel@obelisk.thedillows.org> <1240108599.5342.11.camel@obelisk.thedillows.org> <20090420114041.37c7fa7b@dhcp-lab-109.englab.brq.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20090420114041.37c7fa7b@dhcp-lab-109.englab.brq.redhat.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 892 Lines: 24 Stanislaw Gruszka wrote: > Providing module_param_id would address this issues, but I have some concerns > before doing it: > > - device have to access ID (like serial no) before initialization (at least > before driver will need parameter) > - why nobody already done it - perhaps such thing would be totally useless > Per-nic module parameters are used in some Intel NIC drivers but it's not considered a very good solution in the general case: http://kerneltrap.org/index.php?q=mailarchive/linux-netdev/2008/10/24/3801824/thread But again, when talking about changing the NIC firmware, ethtool and friends are not that easy. Brice -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/