Re: [PATCH 3/3 net-next] tg3: Add sysfs file to export sensor data

From: Ben Hutchings <redacted>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:25:54 +0100

On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 14:04 -0700, Michael Chan wrote:

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And please elaborate on the private ioctl.

Every driver gets to handle SIOCDEVPRIVATE .. SIOCDEVPRIVATE+15.  But
avoid the first 3, as userland may blindly try to use them for MDIO.
David may of course tell you that you should under no circumstances
actually do this.

Indeed. :-)