netdev - RE: [PATCH net 2/4] be2net: Fix ethtool get drvinfo

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Date:	Tue, 7 May 2013 06:27:00 +0000
From:	"Kotur, Somnath" <Somnath.Kotur@...lex.Com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
CC:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"Purayil, Kalesh" <Kalesh.Purayil@...lex.Com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH net 2/4] be2net: Fix ethtool get drvinfo

 
> Although I documented that as being possible in ethtool.h, that was only
> because of one particular caller that has since been removed (commit
> e52ac3398c3d 'net: Use device model to get driver name in
> skb_gso_segment()').  So unless I missed another case, you could change the
> documentation.
> 
Ben, pls correct me if my understanding is wrong here , but I do see one more case where it might have been missed and that 
Is in the function - is_cnic_dev() in cnic.c , I believe this was the case that we were trying to work-around with.

Thanks
Som