Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 5/6] ethtool: Change ETHTOOL_PHYS_ID implementation to allow dropping RTNL

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 18:01:23 -0700

On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:26:31 +0100
Ben Hutchings <[email-masked]> wrote:

> This reimplementation lets us blink LEDs on multiple device at the same
> time, but that's pretty pointless.  The nasty thing is we could try to
> blink LEDs twice over on the same device, violating the rules that the
> drivers depend on.  So I think I need to add:
> 

This looks sane, is there a good way to fix the qlge and cxgb4 drivers
and get rid of the old interface?

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