netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH V5 net-next 0/5] ethtool: Extend module EEPROM dump API

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Date:   Fri, 26 Mar 2021 15:41:51 +0300
From:   Moshe Shemesh <moshe@...dia.com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
CC:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Adrian Pop <pop.adrian61@...il.com>,
        Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>,
        "Don Bollinger" <don@...bollingers.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Vladyslav Tarasiuk" <vladyslavt@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH V5 net-next 0/5] ethtool: Extend module EEPROM dump
 API


On 3/26/2021 1:41 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 04:56:50PM +0200, Moshe Shemesh wrote:
>> Ethtool supports module EEPROM dumps via the `ethtool -m <dev>` command.
>> But in current state its functionality is limited - offset and length
>> parameters, which are used to specify a linear desired region of EEPROM
>> data to dump, is not enough, considering emergence of complex module
>> EEPROM layouts such as CMIS 4.0.
>> Moreover, CMIS 4.0 extends the amount of pages that may be accessible by
>> introducing another parameter for page addressing - banks.
> This is looking much better.
>
> Do you have a version of ethtool using this new API? WIP code is
> O.K. I will add basic support to sfp.c and test it out on the devices
> i have.
Sure.
>    Andrew