Re: [PATCH net-next 00/11] ethtool: Generic loopback support

[Björn Töpel]

Naveen Mamindlapalli <naveenm@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>>  - Is this the right extensibility model? I'd appreciate input from
>>    other NIC vendors on whether component/name/direction is flexible
>>    enough for their loopback implementations. Also, from the PHY/port
>>    folks (Maxime, Russell)! Naveen, please LMK if the MAC side of
>>    thing, is good enough for Marvell.
>
> Hi Bjorn,
>
> Is a SERDES component as Maxime suggested something you'd consider
> for follow-up patches? It would be a natural fit for SoCs with a
> separate SerDes hardware block.

I don't think so -- rather, I think I'll follow Maxime's suggestion for
fewer components, where "component" would be "Linux abstraction/object",
and the "name" would be 802.3 vocabolary. Please see my reply to Maxime
(in the writing now ;-)).


Cheers,
Björn