> Another approach could be to maintain a list of modules that do not work
> with the generic PHY driver and therefore require a specialized driver,
> in that case we could even go as far as not letting sfp_sm_probe_phy()
> return success. Not sure how well things would scale, probably not too
> bad given there are only a handful of users of the SFP framework thus far...
Hi Florian
Blacklisting modules with known issues with the generic driver does
not sound too bad. This is just a warning, a helpful hint, and it is
not going to work anyway. And i don't see scaling problems, Copper
SFPs seems quite odd to start with...
Andrew
