netdev - Re: [net-2.6 PATCH] ixgbe: cleanup ethtool autoneg input

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Date:	Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:05:25 -0700
From:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com,
	donald.c.skidmore@...el.com
Subject: Re: [net-2.6 PATCH] ixgbe: cleanup ethtool autoneg input

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 09:56, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>
> This is also not appropriate for net-2.6, it doesn't fix a
> regression in the regression list and it doesn't fix a catastropic
> crash or failure.
>
> You really have to be kidding me if you thing a patch like this
> is fine this late in the -RC series.
>
> You also aren't even numbering your patches, which is quite a
> transgression when a submission of a set of patches all to the same
> driver and/or files.
> --

My apologies.  My reasoning for not numbering them was that the
patches were not related and not dependent upon each other.

As far as sending the the three patches un-acceptable patches this
late in the -rc series, that was poor judgement on my part, sorry.

-- 
Cheers,
Jeff
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