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Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:03:00 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: bhutchings@...arflare.com Cc: dm@...lsio.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 5/5] cxgb4: exclude registers with read side effects from register dumps From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:17:06 +0100 > On Sun, 2010-07-11 at 15:01 -0700, Dimitris Michailidis wrote: >> A few registers have side effects on reads, eg FIFO pointers that >> auto advance or mailboxes which change ownership when read. They are >> unsafe to read so exclude them from ethtool register dumps. > [...] > > If you change the set of registers in the dump, you need to increment > the version number. Agreed. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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