Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] net: sfp: manage receiver and transmitter regulators

From: Mark Brown

Date: Tue Mar 03 2026 - 10:21:58 EST


On Tue, Mar 03, 2026 at 03:12:14PM +0000, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 03, 2026 at 02:22:40PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 03, 2026 at 02:54:27PM +0100, Romain Gantois wrote:

> > > If phandles to receiver and/or transmitter regulators for an SFP device are
> > > found, enable them at probe time.

> > The driver should unconditionally request whatever power the device
> > needs.

> ... and then we break everyone, just like you broke SATA, and I've
> never forgiven you for taking a principled line on this rather than a
> pragmatic approach. You're making the same mistake here.

Sorry, what's the breakage here? The log messages, or something else?

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