netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 5/6] ethtool: Change ETHTOOL_PHYS

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Message-ID: <1302034898.2932.119.camel@bwh-desktop>
Date:	Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:21:38 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com,
	Michał Mirosław <mirqus@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 5/6] ethtool: Change ETHTOOL_PHYS_ID
 implementation to allow dropping RTNL

On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 18:01 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:26:31 +0100
> Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com> wrote:
> 
> > This reimplementation lets us blink LEDs on multiple device at the same
> > time, but that's pretty pointless.  The nasty thing is we could try to
> > blink LEDs twice over on the same device, violating the rules that the
> > drivers depend on.  So I think I need to add:
> > 
> 
> This looks sane, is there a good way to fix the qlge and cxgb4 drivers
> and get rid of the old interface?

Prod the respective maintainers?

(Wow, using device firmware to implement a delay, that's special.)

Ben.

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