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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] cxgb4: exclude registers with read side
 effects from register dumps
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:34:00 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Dimitris Michailidis <dm@chelsio.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:28:32 -0700

> A few registers have side effects on reads, eg FIFO pointers that
> auto advance or mailboxes which change ownership when read.  They are
> unsafe to read so exclude them from ethtool register dumps.
> 
> Bump ethtool_regs.version to indicate the changed register set.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dimitris Michailidis <dm@chelsio.com>

Applied, thank you.