From 95b924eb5ab75bee82a87bbb47116d5cc2189ba8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anirban Chakraborty Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 12:00:26 -0700 Subject: ethtool: Added FW dump support Added support to take FW dump via ethtool. Signed-off-by: Anirban Chakraborty Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- ethtool.8.in | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) (limited to 'ethtool.8.in') diff --git a/ethtool.8.in b/ethtool.8.in index 42d923b..7b1cdf5 100644 --- a/ethtool.8.in +++ b/ethtool.8.in @@ -254,6 +254,15 @@ ethtool \- query or control network driver and hardware settings .I ethX .RB [ rx\-flow\-hash \ \*(FL \ \*(HO] .HP +.B ethtool \-w|\-\-get\-dump +.I ethX +.RB [ data +.IR filename ] +.HP +.B ethtool\ \-W|\-\-set\-dump +.I ethX +.BI \ N +.HP .B ethtool \-x|\-\-show\-rxfh\-indir .I ethX .HP @@ -595,6 +604,17 @@ other options are ignored. T} .TE .TP +.B \-w \-\-get\-dump +Retrieves and prints firmware dump for the specified network device. +By default, it prints out the dump flag, version and length of the dump data. +When +.I data +is indicated, then ethtool fetches the dump data and directs it to a +.I file. +.TP +.B \-W \-\-set\-dump +Sets the dump flag for the device. +.TP .B \-x \-\-show\-rxfh\-indir Retrieves the receive flow hash indirection table. .TP -- cgit v1.2.1