James Morris wrote:
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?
In the past, dumping certain tg3 registers has led to lock-ups, for one.
Also, blindly dumping registers can negatively affect driver operation,
for the case where reading registers has side effects, such as PHY
register bit shifting, or read-and-clear registers.
Jeff
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