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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 6/6] be2net: fix unnecessary access to
 hardware to get link, port info
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:11:33 -0800 (PST)
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From: Ajit Khaparde <ajitk@serverengines.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:27:46 +0530

> Every time while doing ethtool->get_settings we are accessing
> the hardware to get link status and port information.
> This is not necessary.  We now use the cached copy for this info
> and update it when the link status changes.
> 
> From: Suresh R <sureshr@serverengines.com>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajitk@serverengines.com>

Applied.