Re: [PATCH 5/5] r8169: fix could not dump registers

From: Francois Romieu
Date: Wed Feb 06 2013 - 19:34:37 EST


Hayes Wang <hayeswang@xxxxxxxxxxx> :
> For new version of Fedora and Ubuntu, we see all 0xff when dumping
> the hw regs through ethtool. Using a loop to read registers could
> fix it.

/me wonders...

Will I be wrong if I reformulate so as to outline the role of 4 bytes
aligned accesses when walking the registers area ?

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