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From: Harish Patil <harish.patil@qlogic.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
	Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
	Rasesh Mody <rasesh.mody@qlogic.com>,
	"Dept-Eng DPDK Dev" <Dept-EngDPDKDev@qlogic.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] qede: return LAN stats to MFW
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 14:16:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D3743AC0.26523%harish.patil@qlogic.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3097451.lmEbFpK4k3@xps13>

>
>2016-05-31 19:21, Harish Patil:
>> 
>> >On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 09:21:31PM -0700, Rasesh Mody wrote:
>> >> From: Harish Patil <harish.patil@qlogic.com>
>> >> 
>> >> Under certain scenarios, MFW periodically polls the driver
>> >> for LAN statistics. This patch implements the osal hook to
>> >> fill in the stats.
>> >> 
>> >> Fixes: ffa002d318d36 ("qede: add base driver")
>> >> 
>> >What is MFW?
>> >
>> >/Bruce
>> >
>> 
>> MFW - Management FirmWare running on the card.
>
>So MFW can probably be replaced by firmware in the title.
>

Reason I didn’t use “firmware” in the first place is because there are two
different firmware running on the card:
1) MFW (management firmware - which is flashed)
2) Firmware (datapath  firmware - loaded by driver by reading FW file)

So, I can replace it as management firmware explicitly.


Thanks,
Harish
 


  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-01 14:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-07  4:21 [PATCH 1/2] qede: rename config option Rasesh Mody
2016-05-07  4:21 ` [PATCH 2/2] qede: return LAN stats to MFW Rasesh Mody
2016-05-30 14:34   ` Bruce Richardson
2016-05-31 19:21     ` Harish Patil
2016-06-01  9:43       ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-06-01 14:16         ` Harish Patil [this message]
2016-06-01 14:31           ` Richardson, Bruce
2016-06-01 14:33             ` Harish Patil
2016-05-30 14:38 ` [PATCH 1/2] qede: rename config option Bruce Richardson
2016-06-03 15:01   ` Bruce Richardson
2016-06-03 15:54     ` Rasesh Mody

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