Re: [net-next PATCH 0/6] Add support for 25G, 50G, and 100G to fbnic

[Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 12:35:25PM +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 01:33:27PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 11:43:58PM +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 07:00:24PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > > Excellent, like you said, no one needs this code except fbnic, which is
> > > > exactly as was agreed - no core in/out API changes special for fbnic.
> > > 
> > > Rather than getting all religious about this, I'd prefer to ask a
> > > different question.
> > > 
> > > Is it useful to add 50GBASER, LAUI and 100GBASEP PHY interface modes,
> > > and would anyone else use them? That's the real question here, and
> > > *not* whomever is submitting the patches or who is the first user.
> > 
> > Right now, the answer is no. There are no available devices in the
> > market which implement it.
> 
> That's strictly your own opinion, I doubt it's based on facts.

I based it on wrong assumption, that device on the market in 2025 needs
to be part of upstream Linux kernel too. I was wrong, sorry about that.

Thanks