Subject: Re: regression in ixgbe SFP detection patch

From: Alexander Duyck <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 14:09:54 -0800

On 11/11/2015 01:34 PM, William Dauchy wrote:
> On Nov11 20:33, Tantilov, Emil S wrote:
>> If the diff above is the patch you are referring to then you will break the
>> SFP+ detection in the case where the driver was loaded while there were no
>> SFP+ modules present in the cages.
> understood, I was surprised of the modification of behavior.

You might try testing against net-next to see if the problem still 
exists.  It looks like the code in question doesn't exist upstream as it 
was replaced in commit 45788d2af928 ("ixgbe: fix issue with sfp events 
with new X550 devices").

- Alex