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SubjectRe: [PATCH net-next] net: dwc-xlgmac: add the initial ethtool support
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On 2017/4/11 22:47, David Miller wrote:

> From: Jie Deng <Jie.Deng1@synopsys.com>
> Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 16:14:04 +0800
>
>> It is necessary to provide ethtool support for displaying and
>> modifying parameters of dwc-xlgmac.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jie Deng <jiedeng@synopsys.com>
> I don't see why you cannot allow the statistics to be obtained when
> the device is not running. Similarly for other ethtool calls that
> just fetch information stored in the software state of the driver.
>
> I think your ->begin() method is way too restrictive.
Yeah, begin() seems unreasonable here. I will remove it.

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