From: "Richardson, Bruce" <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Harish Patil <harish.patil@qlogic.com>,
Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
Rasesh Mody <rasesh.mody@qlogic.com>,
Dept-Eng DPDK Dev <Dept-EngDPDKDev@qlogic.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] qede: return LAN stats to MFW
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 14:31:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <59AF69C657FD0841A61C55336867B5B035A7F698@IRSMSX103.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D3743AC0.26523%harish.patil@qlogic.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harish Patil [mailto:harish.patil@qlogic.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 3:16 PM
> To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Richardson, Bruce <bruce.richardson@intel.com>; Rasesh
> Mody <rasesh.mody@qlogic.com>; Dept-Eng DPDK Dev <Dept-
> EngDPDKDev@qlogic.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] qede: return LAN stats to MFW
>
> >
> >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
>
How about firmware in the title, and then you can clarify it as management firmware in the message itself?
Regards,
/Bruce
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-01 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-07 4:21 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] qede: rename config option Rasesh Mody
2016-05-07 4:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [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
2016-06-01 14:31 ` Richardson, Bruce [this message]
2016-06-01 14:33 ` Harish Patil
2016-05-30 14:38 ` [dpdk-dev] [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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