netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/4] net: sfp: allow to use also SFP modules which are detected as SFF

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Message-ID: <20201230182707.4a8b13d0@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 30 Dec 2020 18:27:07 +0100
From:   Marek Behún <kabel@...nel.org>
To:     Pali Rohár <pali@...nel.org>
Cc:     Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] net: sfp: allow to use also SFP modules which are
 detected as SFF

On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 18:06:52 +0100
Pali Rohár <pali@...nel.org> wrote:

> 	if (!sfp->type->module_supported(&id) &&
> 	    (memcmp(id.base.vendor_name, "UBNT            ", 16) ||
> 	     memcmp(id.base.vendor_pn, "UF-INSTANT      ", 16)))

I would rather add a quirk member (bitfield) to the sfp structure and do
something like this

if (!sfp->type->module_supported(&id) &&
    !(sfp->quirks & SFP_QUIRK_BAD_PHYS_ID))

or maybe put this check into the module_supported method.

Marek