netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: phylink: improve phylink_sfp_config

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Message-ID: <65229583-367b-442c-bb24-14f1b04436e1@lunn.ch>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 21:03:47 +0100
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Tristram Ha <tristram.ha@...rochip.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: phylink: improve phylink_sfp_config_phy()
 error message with empty supported

On Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 06:53:48PM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> It seems that phylink does not support driving PHYs in SFP modules using
> the Generic PHY or Generic Clause 45 PHY driver.

Somewhat related, i wounder if we should add a phydev_info() message
in genphy_probe() which prints a message that you probably want to
swap to using a PHY driver specific to the hardware?

The less genphy is used, the better.

	Andrew