netdev - Re: [PATCH ethtool-next 00/14] ethtool: Use memory maps for EEPROM parsing

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Message-ID: <20211027203045.sfauzpf3rarx5iro@lion.mk-sys.cz>
Date:   Wed, 27 Oct 2021 22:30:45 +0200
From:   Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
To:     Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, popadrian1996@...il.com, andrew@...n.ch,
        mlxsw@...dia.com, moshe@...dia.com,
        Ido Schimmel <idosch@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH ethtool-next 00/14] ethtool: Use memory maps for EEPROM
 parsing

On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 04:25:11PM +0300, Ido Schimmel wrote:
> From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...dia.com>
> 
> This patchset prepares ethtool(8) for retrieval and parsing of optional
> and banked module EEPROM pages, such as the ones present in CMIS. This
> is done by better integration of the recent 'MODULE_EEPROM_GET' netlink
> interface into ethtool(8).

I still need to take a closer look at some of the patches but just to be
sure: the only reason to leave this series for 5.16 cycle is that it's
rather big and intrusive change (i.e. it does not depend on any kernel
functionality not present in 5.15), right?

Michal


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