Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758132Ab2HWHNv (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2012 03:13:51 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:34162 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755593Ab2HWHNq (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2012 03:13:46 -0400 Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:13:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20120823.001342.959509094678320374.davem@davemloft.net> To: xiong@qca.qualcomm.com Cc: cjren@qca.qualcomm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, qca-linux-team@qualcomm.com, nic-devel@qualcomm.com, rodrigue@qca.qualcomm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: add new QCA alx ethernet driver From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <157393863283F442885425D2C45428562A4F519A@nasanexd02f.na.qualcomm.com> References: <157393863283F442885425D2C45428562A4F5169@nasanexd02f.na.qualcomm.com> <20120822.234019.1546353507351890178.davem@davemloft.net> <157393863283F442885425D2C45428562A4F519A@nasanexd02f.na.qualcomm.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.5 on Emacs 24.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 587 Lines: 16 From: "Huang, Xiong" Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:56:51 +0000 > I'm afraid someone also rejects my request to add such operation to > ethtool If you don't design it properly, we certainly will ask you to make changes. But it stands a chance of actually being accepted, whereas your debugfs thing absolutely does not. -- 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/