netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC 00/13] phylink and sfp support

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Date:   Thu, 3 Aug 2017 11:11:54 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 00/13] phylink and sfp support

On 08/01/2017 07:39 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 03:01:39PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This patch series introduces generic support for SFP sockets found on
>> various Marvell based platforms.  The idea here is to provide common
>> SFP socket support which can be re-used by network drivers as
>> appropriate, rather than each network driver having to re-implement
>> SFP socket support.
> 
> There is a lot of code here, and i'm not really going to understand it
> until i use it. I have a couple of boards with SFFs connected to
> switches, so i will spend some time over the next month or so to make
> DSA use phylink. As is usual, we can sort out any issues as we go
> along.
> 
> David, if it still applies cleanly, can you add it to net-next?

Agreed, this is in a good shape and the more people we can have testing
this, the better. It may be nice to include a consumer of the PHYLINK
API for other people to start copying from.
-- 
Florian