From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: DM9000: Add support for byte EEPROM access Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:24:02 +0100 Message-ID: <1307708642.22348.590.camel@localhost> References: <1307703032-20349-1-git-send-email-broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Ben Dooks To: Mark Brown Return-path: Received: from mail.solarflare.com ([216.237.3.220]:14593 "EHLO exchange.solarflare.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756011Ab1FJMYF (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jun 2011 08:24:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1307703032-20349-1-git-send-email-broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 11:50 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > From: Ben Dooks > > Given many versions of ethtool's reluctance to do anything other than > byte accesses to the EEPROM interface, it is easier to update the driver > to support byte accesses so that all the ethtool versions that have been > observed in Debian can write the EEPROM. > > Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks > Signed-off-by: Mark Brown Reviewed-by: Ben Hutchings Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.