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

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Date:   Thu, 28 Oct 2021 01:00:59 +0300
From:   Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>
To:     Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
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 Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 10:30:45PM +0200, Michal Kubecek wrote:
> 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?

Right, it does not depend on any kernel functionality not present in
5.15