Re: [PATCH 3/3] dm9601: add support ethtool style utility

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Fri Mar 11 2016 - 06:42:34 EST


On Fri, 2016-03-11 at 11:33 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-03-11 at 19:08 +0800, Joseph Chang wrote:
> >
> > I tested by
> > Â./ethtool -E eth0 magic 0x9620 offset 0 length 3 value 0xf1 value 0xf2 value 0xf3
> >
> > I think ethtool need [ value N ] for each byte (so need three "value xx" in above command line),Â
> > am I right?
> >
> > Oh, I can see it goes wrong~ Thanks~
> [...]
>
> You can only pass one byte on the command line and that forces the
> length to be 1. ÂTo set multiple bytes, you need to provide them on
> stdin instead.

...as raw binary data, not hexadecimal strings.

Ben.

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