Re: [PATCH 1/4] net: sfp: add workaround for Realtek RTL8672 and RTL9601C chips

Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-12-30T19:40:42Z

On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 08:30:52PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > Ok!
> >
> > So should we completely skip hwmon_device_register_with_info() call
> > if (i2c_block_size < 2) ?
>
> Yep. That would be a nice simple test.
>
> But does ethtool -m still export the second page? That is also
> unreliable.

It will do, but we need to check how ethtool decides to request/dump
that information - we probably need to make sfp_module_info()
report that it's a ETH_MODULE_SFF_8079 style EEPROM, not the
ETH_MODULE_SFF_8472 style.

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