netdev - Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/4] ixgbe: fix driver loading with unsupported module on 82598

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Date:	Tue, 26 May 2009 20:41:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	donald.c.skidmore@...el.com, peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/4] ixgbe: fix driver loading with
 unsupported module on 82598

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 02:28:57 +0100

> On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 17:54 -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
>> From: Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@...el.com>
>> 
>> We will now need to store the phy address which we do in the hw->phy
>> struct. Likewise we no longer need the mdio struct in hw->phy along
>> with the mdio functions ixgbe_mdio_write(read) which have been
>> removed.  ixgbe_ioctl was no longer used and referenced hw->phy.mdio
>> so it was also removed.
> 
> The ioctl is for the benefit of user-space!

Indeed, this is completely bogus.  I'm not applying this.

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