Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add LAN78XX OTP_ACCESS flag support

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 10:43:13 -0700

On Mon, 28 Oct 2024 20:19:04 +0100 Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > This is pretty much the same implementation that is already in place
> > for the Linux driver of the LAN743x PCIe device.  
> 
> That is good, it gives some degree of consistency. But i wounder if we
> should go further. I doubt these are the only two devices which
> support both EEPROM and OTP. It would be nicer to extend ethtool:
> 
>        ethtool -e|--eeprom-dump devname [raw on|off] [offset N] [length N] [otp] [eeprom]

After a cursory look at the conversation I wonder if it wouldn't 
be easier to register devlink regions for eeprom and otp?