Re: [net-next PatchV3] octeontx2-pf: Add support to read eeprom information

From: Paolo Abeni
Date: Thu Feb 29 2024 - 04:14:47 EST


On Tue, 2024-02-27 at 16:47 +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 02:17:22PM +0530, Hariprasad Kelam wrote:
> > Add support to read/decode EEPROM module information using ethtool.
> > Usage: ethtool -m <interface>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Hariprasad Kelam <hkelam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > V3 * remove redundant checks as stack is already doing it.
>
> So still only access to the first 256 bytes, using the old internal
> API.
>
> Disappointing.
>
> And the Signed-of-by: appear to be in the wrong order.

To clarify: If Sunil is the author of this patch, you should put his
SoB first and add a From: tag before the changelog, see:

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.8-rc6/source/Documentation/process/6.Followthrough.rst#L199

@Andrew: it looks like the firmware interface is going to be limited
for the time being, are ok with that?

Cheers,

Paolo