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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 21:11:04 +0100

> On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 12:58 -0700, Bruce Allan wrote:
>> physical identification
>> 
>> The following series changes the recently added ethtool set_phys_id
>> functions to allow drivers to provide a frequency at which to cycle
>> through an on/off identifier via software if/when the capability is
>> not provided by hardware.
> [...]
> 
> The first patch leaves all the drivers broken temporarily.  Since the
> change in each driver is trivial, I think you can squash this all into
> one patch.

Agreed.