Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] ethtool: don't show sync queue's on skge/sky2

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:19:38 -0400

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:03:33 -0400
> Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
>> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>>> Remove printout of synchronous transmit queue info because
>>> it is unused by the driver.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
>> 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