Re: [PATCH net-next v4] net: sfp: add SMBus I2C block support

[Bjørn Mork]

"Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 12:16:11PM +0100, Jonas Jelonek wrote:
>
>> When I come to trying to work on that, should that all be kept in
>> mdio-i2c.c? I'm asking because we have a downstream implementation
>> moving that SMbus stuff to mdio-smbus.c. This covers quite a lot right
>> now, C22/C45 and Rollball, but just with byte access [1]. Because that
>> isn't my work, I'll need to check with the original authors and adapt this
>> for an upstream patch, trying to add word + block access.
>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> Jonas
>> 
>> [1] https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/blob/66b6791abe6f08dec2924b5d9e9e7dac93f37bc4/target/linux/realtek/patches-6.12/712-net-phy-add-an-MDIO-SMBus-library.patch
>
> My personal view on this is not suitable for sharing publicly. I'm sure
> people can guess what my view is and why. (Look at the age of the
> patch, and it's clearly "lets re-implement mdio-i2c" rather than "let's
> adapt it".

FWIW, I agree if my guess is correct :-)

I see that my name is on that downstream patch, due to the RollBall
additions there. It was never intended for mainline in that form.  I
originally implemented the SMBus RollBall access methods as part of
mdio-i2c.c and that's where they belong IMHO.

It was briefly discussed here.  But I never had enough time and
motivation to finish this properly. So it ended up as an OpenWrt
specific hack for now.  I certainly won't object to anyone else reusing
any of the code I wrote, if it is any help at all.

Not sure the c45 SMBus stuff in openwrt ever worked BTW. I have only
tested c22 and RollBall over SMBus.


Bjørn