From: James Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:32:38 -0400 (EDT)
> 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? Reading some registers might have side effects, that's one thing. Secondarily, looping over reading all of the registers of the chip might kill performance since the IO accesses compete with the normal packet sending/receiving operations. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
