On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 01:42:19PM -0400, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> Hi Michal,
>
> On Mon, 3 Jun 2019 19:15:12 +0200, Michal Kubecek wrote:
> > On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 07:12:21PM -0400, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> > > ethtool_get_regs() allocates a buffer of size ops->get_regs_len(),
> > > and pass it
Hi Michal,
On Mon, 3 Jun 2019 19:15:12 +0200, Michal Kubecek wrote:
> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 07:12:21PM -0400, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> > ethtool_get_regs() allocates a buffer of size ops->get_regs_len(),
> > and pass it to the kernel driver via ops->get_regs() for filling.
> >
> > There is no r
On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 07:12:21PM -0400, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> ethtool_get_regs() allocates a buffer of size ops->get_regs_len(),
> and pass it to the kernel driver via ops->get_regs() for filling.
>
> There is no restriction about what the kernel drivers can or cannot do
> with the open ethtoo
ethtool_get_regs() allocates a buffer of size ops->get_regs_len(),
and pass it to the kernel driver via ops->get_regs() for filling.
There is no restriction about what the kernel drivers can or cannot do
with the open ethtool_regs structure. They usually set regs->version
and ignore regs->len or s
