Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] ethtool: flie option to register dump

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:06:46 -0700

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:50:19 +0200
Ingo Oeser <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Hi Stephen,
> 
> Stephen Hemminger schrieb:
> > Add ability to take old raw dumps from a file and decode them.
> > It is kind of limited because you still need to have same device
> > as the raw file, but useful for maintainers to decode raw dumps.
> 
> What about putting the (Permanent) MAC into the first 4-6 octets 
> of the hexdump and decode+check+warn using this info first 
> to avoid mixing up files?
> 
> Maybe only the first 4 octets to enhance privacy and still being able
> to detect known "bad" series.
> 
> This might prevent user errors when sending such files
> to developers.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Ingo Oeser

The existing output format for raw is fine for piping into utilities
like hexdump

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Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>