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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix couple of issues with 'ethtool' get/set API's
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From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 20:29:23 +0100

> On Mon, 2015-06-01 at 12:12 -0700, Arun Parameswaran wrote:
>> But this prevents the 'ethtool' from being used to get/set data of
>> specific PHY's.
> 
> That is fine because it is meant to manage the net device's own link (in
> this case, the internal port), not other switch ports.

Ok I'm convinced, I will revert the change in question.

Thanks Ben.