netdev - ethtool: allow ETHTOOL_GSSET

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Date:	Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:27:58 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
Subject: ethtool: allow ETHTOOL_GSSET_INFO for users

Please consider this for stable 3.0.y and 3.2.y:

commit f80400a26a2e8bff541de12834a1134358bb6642
Author: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
Date:   Sun Jan 22 00:20:40 2012 +0000

    ethtool: allow ETHTOOL_GSSET_INFO for users
    
    Allow ETHTOOL_GSSET_INFO ethtool ioctl() for unprivileged users.
    ETHTOOL_GSTRINGS is already allowed, but is unusable without this one.
    
    Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
    Acked-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>

Ben.

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