On 11/6/18 3:38 PM, David Miller wrote: > From: Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com> > Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2018 15:29:10 -0800 > >> This patch series allows warning an user that the generic PHY driver(s) >> are used when a SFP incorporates a PHY (e.g: 1000BaseT SFP) which is >> likely not going to work at all. >> >> Let me know if you would want to do that differently. > > Is there ever a possibility that the generic PHY driver could work > in an SFP situation?
Given the PHY has to operate in SGMII mode, I doubt it could work without a specialized driver, Andrew, Russell, would you concur? > > If not, yes emit the message but also fail the load and registry too > perhaps? > I was not sure this would be acceptable, but it is definitively an easy change. -- Florian
