From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [v2,PCI] move ICHx GbE NVM write-protection from e1000e to PCI quirk Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:12:52 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20081116.191252.80669091.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: bruce.w.allan@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:58069 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754708AbYKQDMx (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:12:53 -0500 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: I'm less than thrilled with this patch so I'm not going to apply it. I mean, what are we going to do, for every single device that has a NVRAM we're going to add some PCI quirk and some new global foo_* kernel command line option to turn it off? That doesn't make any sense at all, sorry.