> -----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 > > > > >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 at 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