netdev - Re: [NET-NEXT PATCH 12/14] e1000e: store EEPROM version number to prevent unnecessary NVM reads

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Message-Id: <20081121.170029.107459148.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:00:29 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jeff@...zik.org, bruce.w.allan@...el.com
Subject: Re: [NET-NEXT PATCH 12/14] e1000e: store EEPROM version number to
 prevent unnecessary NVM reads

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:02:21 -0800

> From: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@...el.com>
> 
> Rather than reading the NVM to get the EEPROM version number everytime the
> ethool get_drvinfo function is called, read it once during probe and save
> it for future reference.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>

Applied.
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