netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: phy: sfp: Add single-byte SMBus SFP access

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Message-ID: <50494dd0-6d0c-4eac-adac-cac9b6e224f6@lunn.ch>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 15:18:28 +0100
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Cc: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>,
	Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>,
	davem@...emloft.net, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	Köry Maincent <kory.maincent@...tlin.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>,
	Romain Gantois <romain.gantois@...tlin.com>,
	Antoine Tenart <atenart@...nel.org>,
	Marek Behún <kabel@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: phy: sfp: Add single-byte SMBus SFP
 access

> "Please note:
> This hardware is broken by design. There is nothing that the kernel or
> community can do to fix it. The kernel will try best efforts, but some
> features are disabled, other features may be unreliable or sporadically
> fail. Use with caution. Please verify any problems on hardware that
> supports multi-byte I2C transactions."

I'm good with that.

	Andrew