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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/ibm/emac: bump version numbers for correct work
 with ethtool
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 11:05:49 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Ivan Mikhaylov <ivan@ru.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 14:42:22 +0400

> Register dump out work preventing with 
> old ethtool + new driver and new ethtool + old driver.

First of all you didn't provide a proper Signoff.

Second of all, there was so much discussion about whether this does
or does not break things for various combinations of old/new ethtool
and kernel.

Therefore I want a real detailed commit message that explains why this
is all OK.  After so much confusion and discussion, providing a patch
with absolutely no commit message is completely inappropriate.