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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 02:28:57 +0100

> On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 17:54 -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
>> From: Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@intel.com>
>> 
>> We will now need to store the phy address which we do in the hw->phy
>> struct. Likewise we no longer need the mdio struct in hw->phy along
>> with the mdio functions ixgbe_mdio_write(read) which have been
>> removed.  ixgbe_ioctl was no longer used and referenced hw->phy.mdio
>> so it was also removed.
> 
> The ioctl is for the benefit of user-space!

Indeed, this is completely bogus.  I'm not applying this.