linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: sfp: small improvements

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Message-ID: <20180522092430.GC2871@kwain>
Date:   Tue, 22 May 2018 11:24:30 +0200
From:   Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@...tlin.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     antoine.tenart@...tlin.com, linux@...linux.org.uk,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com, maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com,
        gregory.clement@...tlin.com, miquel.raynal@...tlin.com,
        nadavh@...vell.com, stefanc@...vell.com, ymarkman@...vell.com,
        mw@...ihalf.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: sfp: small improvements

Hi David,

On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 11:51:15AM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@...tlin.com>
> Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 10:29:05 +0200
> 
> > This series was part of the mvpp2 phylink one but as we reworked it to
> > use fixed-link on the DB boards, the SFP commits weren't needed
> > anymore for our use case. Two of the three patches still are needed I
> > believe (I ditched the one about non-wired SFP cages), so they are sent
> > here in a separate series.
> 
> Based upon the discussion of patch #1, it seems there is a desire to make
> the i2c-bus property mandatory since it isn't clear if access to the SFP
> module without it really all that doable.

Thanks for the clarification, I was about to ask for it. I'll make a v2
making i2c-bus mandatory then.

Thanks!
Antoine

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Antoine Ténart, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com