Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 12:20:58AM CET, k...@kernel.org wrote: >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.
Please see my reply in the other sub-tread of this thread. Thanks!
