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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 28/33] sfc: Use mutex_lock_interruptible() for ethtool
 EEPROM access
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:06:32 -0800 (PST)
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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:59:23 +0000

> ethtool must contend with the MTD driver for the SPI bus lock, which
> may carry out long operations such as flash erase.  Allow it to be
> interrupted while waiting.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>

Applied.