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From: Christopher Li <chrisl@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: + e1000e-prevent-corruption-of-eeprom-nvm.patch added to -mm
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Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 20:04:49 -0700
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On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 05:44:56PM -0700, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 
> All ethtool commands are serialised by the RTNL as Jesse said above.
>
What Zach trying to say is that, ioctl is not the only way to
reach the eepro read/write code inside the kernel.

Chris