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Message-ID: <20080903030448.GB26161@vmware.com>
Date:	Tue, 2 Sep 2008 20:04:49 -0700
From:	Christopher Li <chrisl@...are.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Cc:	Zach Amsden <zach@...are.com>,
	"Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"arvidjaar@...l.ru" <arvidjaar@...l.ru>,
	"Allan, Bruce W" <bruce.w.allan@...el.com>,
	"jeff@...zik.org" <jeff@...zik.org>,
	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
	"Ronciak, John" <john.ronciak@...el.com>,
	"Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>,
	Pratap Subrahmanyam <pratap@...are.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"mm-commits@...r.kernel.org" <mm-commits@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: + e1000e-prevent-corruption-of-eeprom-nvm.patch added to -mm
	tree

On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 05:44:56PM -0700, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 
> All ethtool commands are serialised by the RTNL as Jesse said above.
>
What Zach trying to say is that, ioctl is not the only way to
reach the eepro read/write code inside the kernel.

Chris
 
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