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From: Peter Wu <lekensteyn@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8169: fix invalid register dump
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 00:58:03 +0200
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On Thursday 15 August 2013 22:33:15 Ben Hutchings wrote:
> The kernel buffer size is max(regs->len,
> dev->ethtool_ops->get_regs_len()).  So you can safely ignore regs->len
> and always read all your registers.

I see, that is something for a different patch though. While I am at it,
I checked all users of get_regs_len in drivers/net and found only one
other user that also checked the length. Patch will follow shortly.