From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
To: jdb@comx.dk
Cc: "e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net"
<e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>,
"Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet@amorsen.dk>,
"Skidmore, Donald C" <donald.c.skidmore@intel.com>,
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>,
"Fujinaka, Todd" <todd.fujinaka@intel.com>,
David Lamparter <equinox@diac24.net>,
Robert Bays <robert@herjulf.net>,
"Ronciak, John" <john.ronciak@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] ixgbe: Module param "allow_any_sfp" for allowing unsupported SFP+ modules
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:12:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1327021934.2707.10.camel@jtkirshe-mobl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1326984405.2795.91.camel@probook>
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On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 15:46 +0100, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
>
> Intel are limiting which SFP's can use in their NICs, due to support
> issues.
> This restriction comes from an EEPROM setting
> IXGBE_DEVICE_CAPS_ALLOW_ANY_SFP.
> This is for example the case with the 10Gbit/s X520-DA2 NIC.
>
> Add a module param "allow_any_sfp", which can override the EEPROM
> setting, and allows any unsupported SFP+ module to be used. When
> doing so, print disclaimer of unsupported usage.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_phy.c | 23
> ++++++++++++++++++++---
> 1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Thanks Jesper, I will add it to me queue of patches.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-20 1:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-18 11:30 ixgbe: Unsupported SFP+ modules on 10Gbit/s X520-DA2 NIC? Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2012-01-18 17:13 ` Jesse Brandeburg
2012-01-18 20:00 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2012-01-18 21:45 ` Benny Amorsen
2012-01-18 22:19 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2012-01-18 22:43 ` Ben Greear
2012-01-19 14:46 ` [PATCH RFC] ixgbe: Module param "allow_any_sfp" for allowing unsupported SFP+ modules Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2012-01-20 1:12 ` Jeff Kirsher [this message]
2012-01-18 22:21 ` [E1000-devel] ixgbe: Unsupported SFP+ modules on 10Gbit/s X520-DA2 NIC? Fujinaka, Todd
2012-01-18 22:40 ` Ben Greear
2012-01-19 11:50 ` David Lamparter
2012-01-19 1:12 ` [E1000-devel] " Chuck Anderson
2012-01-19 2:55 ` Simon Chen
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