netdev - Re: [PATCH] netxen: remove private ioctl

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Message-ID: <20061215160433.GA18572@infradead.org>
Date:	Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:04:33 +0000
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...l.org>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>,
	"Amit S. Kale" <amitkale@...xen.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netxen: remove private ioctl

On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 07:57:08AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> The netxen driver includes a private ioctl that provides access
> to functionality that is already available in other ways. The PCI
> layer has application access hooks (see setpci), and the statistics
> are available in ethtool/netstats.


ACK. The removed code is full of bugs aswell.

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