On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 17:44:23 +0530 "Ramachandra K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:57 PM, Stephen Hemminger > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 29 May 2008 15:24:23 +0530 > > Ramachandra K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <snip> > > > >> +module_param(vnic_debug, uint, 0444); > >> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(vnic_debug, "Enable debug tracing if > 0"); > > > > maybe migrate this to ethtool msg_level? > > > > We investigated this and found that we cannot map all of our Infiniband > level communication errors etc to the ethtool message levels. One option could > be to add support for Ethtool message levels in addition to the vnic_debug > controlled messages. The Ethtool support would make this driver conform > to ethtool similar to other Ethernet drivers and the vnic_debug messages will > help in debugging the Infiniband related errors. > > Is ethtool support mandatory for a merge to 2.6.27 or can we consider > it as a future > enhancement while we first focus on moving this driver to use CONFIGFS ? > > Regards, > Ram No problem, just a suggestion of how to make it easier to manage. _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
