netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: txgbe: expend SW-FW mailbox buffer size to identify QSFP module

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Message-ID: <aNqPAH2q0sqxE6bX@horms.kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2025 14:52:00 +0100
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Jiawen Wu <jiawenwu@...stnetic.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	"Russell King (Oracle)" <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>,
	Mengyuan Lou <mengyuanlou@...-swift.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: txgbe: expend SW-FW mailbox buffer
 size to identify QSFP module

On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 05:39:21PM +0800, Jiawen Wu wrote:
> In order to identify 40G and 100G QSFP modules, expend mailbox buffer
> size to store more information read from the firmware.

Hi,

I see that the message size is increased by 4 bytes,
including two new one-byte fields.
But I don't see how that is used by this patchset.
Could you expand on this a little?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiawen Wu <jiawenwu@...stnetic.com>

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