From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: "Marek Behún" <kabel@kernel.org>
Cc: "Andrew Lunn" <andrew@lunn.ch>, "Bjørn Mork" <bjorn@mork.no>,
"Maxime Chevallier" <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>,
davem@davemloft.net, "Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>,
"Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@redhat.com>,
"Heiner Kallweit" <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com,
"Florian Fainelli" <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
"Köry Maincent" <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>,
"Simon Horman" <horms@kernel.org>,
"Romain Gantois" <romain.gantois@bootlin.com>,
"Antoine Tenart" <atenart@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: phy: sfp: Add single-byte SMBus SFP access
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 14:38:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z7yEgFR9scO2aRYh@shell.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <kqur446k5sryspwh4zzndytfqhpupfybimhgbtq5m7fm7vom7s@hhqlh3llrsxl>
On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 03:32:43PM +0100, Marek Behún wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 01:48:19PM +0000, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > "Please note:
> > This hardware is broken by design. There is nothing that the kernel or
>
> Doesn't "broken by design" mean "broken intentionally" ?
The point of this part of the discussion is to find a form of words
that folk are happy with, so please feel free to suggest an
alternative.
To put it bluntly, it does come down to "broken by the hardware
engineer not having full knowledge of the requirements of SFP modules
as documented in the SNIA documentation and selecting hardware that
violates some of the requirements."
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-02-24 14:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-02-23 17:28 [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: phy: sfp: Add single-byte SMBus SFP access Maxime Chevallier
2025-02-23 17:28 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: phy: sfp: Add support for SMBus module access Maxime Chevallier
2025-02-23 17:28 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] net: mdio: mdio-i2c: Add support for single-byte SMBus operations Maxime Chevallier
2025-02-24 3:36 ` Andrew Lunn
2025-02-24 10:03 ` Maxime Chevallier
2025-02-23 17:40 ` [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: phy: sfp: Add single-byte SMBus SFP access Russell King (Oracle)
2025-02-23 17:48 ` Maxime Chevallier
2025-02-25 12:38 ` Bjørn Mork
2025-02-25 13:06 ` Maxime Chevallier
2025-02-25 13:29 ` Andrew Lunn
2025-02-25 17:15 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2025-02-25 18:07 ` Bjørn Mork
2025-02-25 18:40 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2025-02-23 18:37 ` Bjørn Mork
2025-02-23 20:31 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2025-02-24 3:32 ` Andrew Lunn
2025-02-24 7:13 ` Bjørn Mork
2025-02-24 8:47 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2025-02-24 9:35 ` Maxime Chevallier
2025-02-24 13:31 ` Andrew Lunn
2025-02-24 13:48 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2025-02-24 14:18 ` Andrew Lunn
2025-02-24 14:32 ` Marek Behún
2025-02-24 14:38 ` Russell King (Oracle) [this message]
2025-02-24 16:24 ` Maxime Chevallier
2025-02-25 8:08 ` Maxime Chevallier
2025-02-24 9:38 ` Maxime Chevallier
2025-02-24 10:36 ` Marek Behún
2025-02-24 16:30 ` Sean Anderson
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