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Re: [PATCH 2/3] iwlagn: implement layout-agnostic EEPROM reading

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On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 09:37:07AM -0800, Wey-Yi Guy wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The current EEPROM reading code has some layout
> assumptions that now turned out to be false with
> some newer versions of the EEPROM. Luckily, we
> can avoid all such assumptions by using data in
> the EEPROM itself, so implement using that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@xxxxxxxxx>

Is rewriting the EEPROM code really necessary for 2.6.37?  This seems
like a lot of code to potentially get wrong...

John
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