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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] ethtool: don't show sync queue's on skge/sky2
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:19:38 -0400
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Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:03:33 -0400
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>>> Remove printout of synchronous transmit queue info because
>>> it is unused by the driver.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
>> NAK, it doesn't matter whether a feature is used by the driver or not.
> 
> Okay, but it's just noise.

It's noise until you notice those registers being used, when you thought 
they were unused... :)  Happens all the time in minor chipset 
variations, for example.

ethtool register dumps should dump __all known__ registers, used or not.

	Jeff