On 12/05/14 13:08, Mike Belopuhov wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 11:24 +0100, Gabriel Linder wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On a 5.6-release I have an ix card which refuses to work with unsupported 
>> SFP+ modules, saying this : ix0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82599" rev 
>> 0x01Unsupported SFP+ Module.
>>
>> However, this seems to be an artificial limitation of the ix driver : the 
>> following diff (against sys.tar.gz as of 5.6-release) allows my SFP+ and it 
>> works fine so far.
>>
>> The patch was made in a hurry, so I probably have cut more than I should... 
>> Is there a simpler/better way to fix this ?
>>
>>
> I think this is roughly what I have recently committed to -current.
> But hey, thanks for taking your time for looking into this!
>

Thanks you Mike and Jonathan for answering, I will backport your diff then :)

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