On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 14:58:33 -0800 Jacob Keller wrote: > > There is no way to tell a breakout cable from normal one, so the > > system has no chance to magically configure itself. Besides SFP > > is just plugging a cable, not a module of the system.. > > > If you're able to tell what is plugged in, why would we want to force > user to provision ahead of time? Wouldn't it make more sense to just > instantiate them as the card is plugged in? I guess it might be useful > to allow programming the netdevices before the cable is actually > inserted... I guess I don't see why that is valuable. > > It would be sort of like if you provision a PCI slot before a device is > plugged into it..
Yup, that's pretty much my thinking as well.
