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From: "Huang, Xiong" <xiong@qca.qualcomm.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:56:51 +0000

> I'm afraid someone also rejects my request to add such operation to
> ethtool

If you don't design it properly, we certainly will ask you to make
changes.

But it stands a chance of actually being accepted, whereas your
debugfs thing absolutely does not.