netdev - Re: [PATCH net] sfc: revert changes to NIC revision numbers

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Date:   Fri, 12 May 2017 12:34:23 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     ecree@...arflare.com
Cc:     linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] sfc: revert changes to NIC revision numbers

From: Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 17:18:50 +0100

> From: Bert Kenward <bkenward@...arflare.com>
> 
> The revision enum values (eg EFX_REV_HUNT_A0) form part of our API,
>  and are included in ethtool. If these are inconsistent then ethtool
>  will print garbage for a register dump (ethtool -d).
> 
> Fixes: 5a6681e22c14 ("sfc: separate out SFC4000 ("Falcon") support into new sfc-falcon driver")
> Signed-off-by: Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com>

Applied.