netdev - Re: ethtool 5.16 release / ethtool -m bug fix

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Date:   Tue, 18 Jan 2022 15:54:39 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
Cc:     Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, michel@...com,
        dcavalca@...com
Subject: Re: ethtool 5.16 release / ethtool -m bug fix

On Wed, 19 Jan 2022 00:14:23 +0100 Michal Kubecek wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 02:51:59PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > Hi Michal!
> > 
> > Sorry to hasten but I'm wondering if there is a plan to cut the 5.16
> > ethtool release? Looks like there is a problem in SFP EEPROM parsing
> > code, at least with QSFP28s, user space always requests page 3 now.
> > This ends in an -EINVAL (at least for drivers not supporting the paged
> > mode).
> > 
> > By the looks of it - Ido fixed this in 6e2b32a0d0ea ("sff-8636: Request
> > specific pages for parsing in netlink path") but it may be too much code 
> > to backport so I'm thinking it's easiest for distros to move to v5.16.  
> 
> Accidentally, I'm working on it right now. I need to run few more tests,
> should be done in 20-30 minutes (if there are no complications).

Perfect! That's lucky or unlucky depending on how you look at it :)

I see the tag already, thanks!