[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] qede: return LAN stats to MFW

[Harish Patil]

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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Harish Patil [mailto:harish.patil at qlogic.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 3:16 PM
>> To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>
>> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Richardson, Bruce <bruce.richardson at intel.com>; Rasesh
>> Mody <rasesh.mody at qlogic.com>; Dept-Eng DPDK Dev <Dept-
>> EngDPDKDev at qlogic.com>
>> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] qede: return LAN stats to MFW
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>> >2016-05-31 19:21, Harish Patil:
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>> >> >On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 09:21:31PM -0700, Rasesh Mody wrote:
>> >> >> From: Harish Patil <harish.patil at qlogic.com>
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>> >> >> Under certain scenarios, MFW periodically polls the driver for LAN
>> >> >> statistics. This patch implements the osal hook to fill in the
>> >> >> stats.
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>> >> >> Fixes: ffa002d318d36 ("qede: add base driver")
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>> >> >What is MFW?
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>> >> >/Bruce
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>> >> MFW - Management FirmWare running on the card.
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>> >So MFW can probably be replaced by firmware in the title.
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>> Reason I didn’t use “firmware” in the first place is because there are
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>> different firmware running on the card:
>> 1) MFW (management firmware - which is flashed)
>> 2) Firmware (datapath  firmware - loaded by driver by reading FW file)
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>> So, I can replace it as management firmware explicitly.
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>> Thanks,
>> Harish
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>How about firmware in the title, and then you can clarify it as
>management firmware in the message itself?
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>Regards,
>/Bruce
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Sure, will do.