From: Ido Schimmel <ido...@mellanox.com> Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2019 09:12:06 +0000
> Vadim says: > > The minimal driver is chip independent and uses I2C bus for chip access. > Its purpose is to support chassis management on systems equipped with > Mellanox switch ASICs. For example, from a BMC (Board Management > Controller) device. > > Patches #1-#3 add ethtool support to the minimal driver so that QSFP/SFP > module info could be retrieved by the driver. This is done by exposing a > dummy netdev for each front panel port and implementing the required > ethtool operations. > > Patches #4-#8 add resource query support. This allows the driver to > query the firmware about values of certain resources (e.g., maximum > number of ports). It is required on systems where the maximum number of > ports is larger than the hard coded default (64). Series applied, thanks Ido.
