> > > >> -----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 >
Sure, will do.
