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[net-next,1/3] Altera TSE: Set version number by driver's get regs

Message ID 1395366197-9781-2-git-send-email-vbridgers2013@gmail.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Vince Bridgers March 21, 2014, 1:43 a.m. UTC
Set the version number returned by the driver's get regs routine
invoked by ethtool so formatting can be dependent on the version
number returned, and any interesting formatted output can check
the version number for specific types of register data returned.

Signed-off-by: Vince Bridgers <vbridgers2013@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_ethtool.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

Comments

David Miller March 21, 2014, 7:36 p.m. UTC | #1
From: Vince Bridgers <vbridgers2013@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 20:43:15 -0500

> Set the version number returned by the driver's get regs routine
> invoked by ethtool so formatting can be dependent on the version
> number returned, and any interesting formatted output can check
> the version number for specific types of register data returned.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vince Bridgers <vbridgers2013@gmail.com>

Applied.
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_ethtool.c
index 63ac5f4..319ca74 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_ethtool.c
@@ -181,6 +181,14 @@  static void tse_get_regs(struct net_device *dev, struct ethtool_regs *regs,
 	u32 *tse_mac_regs = (u32 *)priv->mac_dev;
 	u32 *buf = regbuf;
 
+	/* Set version to a known value, so ethtool knows
+	 * how to do any special formatting of this data.
+	 * This version number will need to change if and
+	 * when this register table is changed.
+	 */
+
+	regs->version = 1;
+
 	for (i = 0; i < TSE_NUM_REGS; i++)
 		buf[i] = ioread32(&tse_mac_regs[i]);
 }