netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/6] gianfar: Replace sysfs stubs with module params (fix)

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Date:	Sun, 16 Feb 2014 23:48:43 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	claudiu.manoil@...escale.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/6] gianfar: Replace sysfs stubs with module
 params (fix)

From: Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@...escale.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 14:04:01 +0200

> Removing the sysfs stubs for the Tx FIFOCFG and ATTRELI
> (stashing) config registers, as these registers may only
> be configured after a MAC reset, with the controller stopped
> (i.e. during hw init, at probe() time). The current sysfs
> stubs allow on-the-fly updates of these registers (the locking
> measures are useless and only add unecessary code).
> 
> Changing these registers on-the-fly is strogly discouraged.
> In this regard, this patch may be seen as a security fix.
> 
> To address this issue and not lose entirely these config
> params, they are now accessible as driver module parameters,
> and their names and default values have been preserved.
> 
> Moreover, the stasing configuration options were effectively
> disabled (didn't get to the hw anyway if changed) because
> the stashing device_flags (HAS_BD_STASHING|HAS_BUF_STASHING)
> were "accidentally" cleared during probe(). The patch fixes
> this bug as well.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@...escale.com>

Sorry, no new module parameters.

And as you state these never actually reached the hardware so they
_never worked_.  Please just remove them.
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