RE: [PATCH v2 08/16] mlx4_en: Reporting HW revision in ethtool -i
From: Yevgeny Petrilin <hidden>
Date: 2011-03-23 15:10:43
This is an abuse of the ethtool_drvinfo::driver field. Your users can use lspci -v, can't they?
I don't think there is a problem here. We have always reported the HW model via Ethtool, we just expanded the information we provide. Our users prefer to see the information in ethtool. Thanks, Yevgeny