Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] net: sfp: add workaround for Realtek RTL8672 and RTL9601C chips

[Marek Behún]

On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 19:45:49 +0000
Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think you're not reading the code very well. It checks for bytes at
> offset 1..blocksize-1, blocksize+1..2*blocksize-1, etc are zero. It
> does _not_ check that byte 0 or the byte at N*blocksize is zero - these
> bytes are skipped. In other words, the first byte of each transfer can
> be any value. The other bytes of the _entire_ ID must be zero.

Wouldn't it be better, instead of checking if 1..blocksize-1 are zero,
to check whether reading byte by byte returns the same as reading 16
bytes whole?

Marek