netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH 0/6] Add support for 25G, 50G, and 100G to fbnic

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Message-ID: <20250616151921.GD750234@unreal>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:19:21 +0300
From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	hkallweit1@...il.com, davem@...emloft.net, pabeni@...hat.com,
	kuba@...nel.org, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 0/6] Add support for 25G, 50G, and 100G to fbnic

On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 12:35:25PM +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 01:33:27PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 11:43:58PM +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 07:00:24PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > > Excellent, like you said, no one needs this code except fbnic, which is
> > > > exactly as was agreed - no core in/out API changes special for fbnic.
> > > 
> > > Rather than getting all religious about this, I'd prefer to ask a
> > > different question.
> > > 
> > > Is it useful to add 50GBASER, LAUI and 100GBASEP PHY interface modes,
> > > and would anyone else use them? That's the real question here, and
> > > *not* whomever is submitting the patches or who is the first user.
> > 
> > Right now, the answer is no. There are no available devices in the
> > market which implement it.
> 
> That's strictly your own opinion, I doubt it's based on facts.

I based it on wrong assumption, that device on the market in 2025 needs
to be part of upstream Linux kernel too. I was wrong, sorry about that.

Thanks