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Date:	Wed, 13 Apr 2011 21:11:04 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@...el.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 RFC PATCH v2 00/13] ethtool: allow custom
 interval for

On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 12:58 -0700, Bruce Allan wrote:
> physical identification
> 
> The following series changes the recently added ethtool set_phys_id
> functions to allow drivers to provide a frequency at which to cycle
> through an on/off identifier via software if/when the capability is
> not provided by hardware.
[...]

The first patch leaves all the drivers broken temporarily.  Since the
change in each driver is trivial, I think you can squash this all into
one patch.

Ben.

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