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Message-Id: <1254481219.23350.77.camel@localhost>
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:00:19 +0100
From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To: Ajit Khaparde <ajitk@...verengines.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] ethtool: Add reset operation
On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 16:10 +0530, Ajit Khaparde wrote:
[...]
> Can you tell the intention behind this copy_to_user?
> Do you envision drivers sending back some data to the userland - may be
> sometime in future?
This allows userland to see which components were actually reset.
Ben.
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