From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: steve.glendinning@smsc.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, ian.saturley@smsc.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] smsc95xx: remove EEPROM loaded check
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:56:31 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090802.125631.134874410.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1248784678-31726-1-git-send-email-steve.glendinning@smsc.com>
From: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@smsc.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:37:58 +0100
> The eeprom read & write commands currently check the E2P_CMD_LOADED_ bit is
> set before allowing any operations. This prevents any reading or writing
> unless a correctly programmed EEPROM is installed.
>
> This patch removes the check, so it is possible to program blank EEPROMS
> via ethtool.
>
> Signed-off-by: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@smsc.com>
Applied to net-next-2.6
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2009-07-28 12:37 [PATCH] smsc95xx: remove EEPROM loaded check Steve Glendinning
2009-08-02 19:56 ` David Miller [this message]
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