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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] net/ibm/emac: bump version numbers for correct work with ethtool
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From: Ivan Mikhaylov <ivan@ru.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 11:52:27 +0400

> The size of the MAC register dump used to be the size specified by the
> reg property in the device tree. Userland has no good way of finding
> out that size, and it was not specified consistently for each MAC type,
> so ethtool would end up printing junk at the end of the register dump
> if the device tree didn't match the size it assumed.
>
> Using the new version numbers indicates unambiguously that the size of
> the MAC register dump is dependent only on the MAC type.
>
> Fixes: 5369c71f7ca2 ("net/ibm/emac: fix size of emac dump memory areas")
>
> Signed-off-by: Ivan Mikhaylov <ivan@ru.ibm.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable.


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