Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: sfp: small improvements

From: David Miller
Date: Mon May 21 2018 - 10:56:37 EST


From: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 10:29:05 +0200

> This series was part of the mvpp2 phylink one but as we reworked it to
> use fixed-link on the DB boards, the SFP commits weren't needed
> anymore for our use case. Two of the three patches still are needed I
> believe (I ditched the one about non-wired SFP cages), so they are sent
> here in a separate series.

Based upon the discussion of patch #1, it seems there is a desire to make
the i2c-bus property mandatory since it isn't clear if access to the SFP
module without it really all that doable.