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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] ethtool: Add reset operation
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:00:19 +0100
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On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 16:10 +0530, Ajit Khaparde wrote:
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> Can you tell the intention behind this copy_to_user?
> Do you envision drivers sending back some data to the userland - may be
> sometime in future?

This allows userland to see which components were actually reset.

Ben.

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