netdev - Re: [v2,PCI] move ICHx GbE NVM write-protection from e1000e to PCI quirk

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Message-Id: <20081116.191252.80669091.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:12:52 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
CC:	bruce.w.allan@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v2,PCI] move ICHx GbE NVM write-protection from e1000e to PCI
 quirk

I'm less than thrilled with this patch so I'm not going to apply it.

I mean, what are we going to do, for every single device that has a
NVRAM we're going to add some PCI quirk and some new global foo_*
kernel command line option to turn it off?

That doesn't make any sense at all, sorry.
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