Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: sfp: quirk support for XGS-PON ONT sticks with unclean EEPROMs

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Sun,  5 Jul 2026 20:54:37 +0200 Martino Dell'Ambrogio wrote:
> Some clone XGS-PON ONT sticks ship EEPROMs where the vendor PN field is
> filled with non-printable garbage past the legitimate string instead of
> the SFF-8472 mandated space padding. sfp_strlen() then can't trim the
> field, the exact-length check in sfp_match() rejects the quirk entry
> before the string comparison runs, and the quirk silently never applies
> — so the kernel honors the module's spurious TX_FAULT and eventually
> disables it.

The netdev patch queue has overflown.
If these patches are still relevant you'll have to repost them.