Source: linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 Severity: normal Tags: patch upstream ixgbe driver enforces vendor locking for SFP+ optics in the open source driver. Attaching a patch to address this issue.
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Description: Remove intel vendor lock for SFP(+) optics Makes sure all optics will work. . Author: Wilco Baan Hofman <[email protected]> --- The information above should follow the Patch Tagging Guidelines, please checkout http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/ to learn about the format. Here are templates for supplementary fields that you might want to add: Origin: other Bug: <url in upstream bugtracker> Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/<bugnumber> Forwarded: no Reviewed-By: Wilco Baan Hofman <[email protected]> Last-Update: 2013-02-21 --- linux-3.2.35.orig/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_phy.c +++ linux-3.2.35/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_phy.c @@ -1068,9 +1068,11 @@ s32 ixgbe_identify_sfp_module_generic(st if (hw->phy.type == ixgbe_phy_sfp_intel) { status = 0; } else { - hw_dbg(hw, "SFP+ module not supported\n"); - hw->phy.type = ixgbe_phy_sfp_unsupported; - status = IXGBE_ERR_SFP_NOT_SUPPORTED; + hw_dbg(hw, "SFP+ module not supported, but unlocking the card for you.\n"); + enforce_sfp |= IXGBE_DEVICE_CAPS_ALLOW_ANY_SFP; + hw->eeprom.ops.write(hw, IXGBE_DEVICE_CAPS, enforce_sfp); + ixgbe_update_eeprom_checksum_generic(hw); + status = 0; } } else { status = 0;
