netdev - Re: ethtool fails to read some QSFP+ modules.

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Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2024 10:28:32 +0300
From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>
To: Dan Merillat <git@....merillat.org>
Cc: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ethtool fails to read some QSFP+ modules.

On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 01:27:07PM -0400, Dan Merillat wrote:
> 
> I was testing an older Kaiam XQX2502 40G-LR4 and ethtool -m failed with netlink error.  It's treating a failure to read
> the optional page3 data as a hard failure.
> 
> This patch allows ethtool to read qsfp modules that don't implement the voltage/temperature alarm data.

Thanks for the report and the patch. Krzysztof Olędzki reported the same
issue earlier this year:
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/9e757616-0396-4573-9ea9-3cb5ef5c901a@ans.pl/

Krzysztof, are you going to submit the ethtool and mlx4 patches?

> From 3144fbfc08fbfb90ecda4848fc9356bde8933d4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Dan Merillat <git@....eginity.com>
> Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 13:11:51 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] Some qsfp modules do not support page 3
> 
> Tested on an older Kaiam XQX2502 40G-LR4 module.
> ethtool -m aborts with netlink error due to page 3
> not existing on the module. Ignore the error and
> leave map->page_03h NULL.

User space only tries to read this page because the module advertised it
as supported. It is more likely that the NIC driver does not return all
the pages. Which driver is it?