netdev - Re: [PATCH] [ETHTOOL]: Add support for large eeproms

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Message-ID: <cc96a5040804151007q6008355cl2cc85242b81f3918@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:07:21 -0700
From:	"Tim Hockin" <thockin@...gle.com>
To:	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	msb@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, jeff@...zik.org,
	joe@...ches.com, nil@...gle.com, matthew@....cx
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [ETHTOOL]: Add support for large eeproms

Hey Dave, long time!

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:31 AM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>
>  This looks fine on the surface.
>
>  But I wonder what we can do if we have some EEPROM implementation
>  that can only write the whole time at once, and thus will fail
>  if you try to do it in pieces?  Do we have such a case?
>
>  If so this new code could cause regressions.

No device that I know of behaves that way.  It's certainly possible,
but I've never seen any sort of PROM device that has such a
requirement.

Tim
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