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

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Message-ID: <YZTbUVAvmR4hmOXl@shredder>
Date:   Wed, 17 Nov 2021 12:37:05 +0200
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 Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 01:01:05AM +0300, Ido Schimmel wrote:
> 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

Can the patchset be applied to ethtool-next please? It is marked as
"Under Review" for over a month now and I would like to make progress
with other patches I have in the queue.

Thanks