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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netxen: remove private ioctl
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:04:33 +0000
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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.