netdev - Re: [PATCH 5/5] r8169: fix could not dump registers

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Message-ID: <20130207000402.GD2784@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
Date:	Thu, 7 Feb 2013 01:04:02 +0100
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	Hayes Wang <hayeswang@...ltek.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] r8169: fix could not dump registers

Hayes Wang <hayeswang@...ltek.com> :
> For new version of Fedora and Ubuntu, we see all 0xff when dumping
> the hw regs through ethtool. Using a loop to read registers could
> fix it.

/me wonders...

Will I be wrong if I reformulate so as to outline the role of 4 bytes
aligned accesses when walking the registers area ?

-- 
Ueimor
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