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From: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] let mortals use ethtool
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:32:38 -0400 (EDT)
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On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Michael Chan wrote:

> I'm against letting normal users do ETHTOOL_GREGS and ETHTOOL_PHYS_ID.
> Dumping 64K worth of registers and blinking the LEDs should be
> restricted.

Out of curiosity -- why?



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