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From: "Eilon Greenstein" <eilong@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't dump eeprom when bnx2x adapter is down
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:40:10 +0200
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On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 14:34 -0800, Paul Larson wrote:
> Don't dump eeprom when bnx2x adapter is down.  Running ethtool -e gave
> me an eeh in testing only when the adapter was down.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Larson <pl@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Thanks Paul,

This is indeed a required patch. I will send another one for the set
eeprom method as well.

Thanks,
Eilon