netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] asix: Rework reading from EEPROM

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Date:	Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:50:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	christian.riesch@...cron.at
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, allan@...x.com.tw, kernel@...savvy.com,
	grundler@...omium.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] asix: Rework reading from EEPROM

From: Christian Riesch <christian.riesch@...cron.at>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 12:23:06 +0200

> The current code for reading the EEPROM via ethtool in the asix
> driver has a few issues. It cannot handle odd length values
> (accesses must be aligned at 16 bit boundaries) and interprets the
> offset provided by ethtool as 16 bit word offset instead as byte offset.
> 
> The new code for asix_get_eeprom() introduced by this patch is
> modeled after the code in
> drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1e/atl1e_ethtool.c
> and provides read access to the entire EEPROM with arbitrary
> offsets and lengths.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Riesch <christian.riesch@...cron.at>

Applied.
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