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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	"Amit S. Kale" <amitkale@netxen.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netxen: remove private ioctl
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:04:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061215160433.GA18572@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061215075708.57a1b6b6@localhost.localdomain>

On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 07:57:08AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> The netxen driver includes a private ioctl that provides access
> to functionality that is already available in other ways. The PCI
> layer has application access hooks (see setpci), and the statistics
> are available in ethtool/netstats.


ACK. The removed code is full of bugs aswell.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-15 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-05 20:07 [PATCH] netxen: sparse warning and ioctl bug fixes Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-06 16:10 ` Amit S. Kale
2006-12-06 16:30   ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-07 10:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-07 10:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-15 15:57   ` [PATCH] netxen: remove private ioctl Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-15 16:04     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2006-12-27  5:36     ` Amit S. Kale

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