Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ixgbe: add the external ixgbe fiber transceiver status

From: Yanjun Zhu <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 10:43:59 +0800

On 2017/2/10 3:08, Tantilov, Emil S wrote:
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>> Behalf Of Zhu Yanjun
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 7:03 PM
>> To: Kirsher, Jeffrey T <[email-masked]>; [email-masked];
>> [email-masked]; [email-masked];
>> [email-masked]
>> Subject: [PATCH 1/1] ixgbe: add the external ixgbe fiber transceiver status
>>
>> When the ixgbe fiber transceiver is external, it is necessary to get
>> the present/absent status of this external ixgbe fiber transceiver.
> The transceiver field was deprecated in the old ethtool API and is being
> removed in the new. This patch will not apply at all once those changes are made:
>
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/725081/
Thanks for your kind reply. I will change this patch based on the above 
changes.

Zhu Yanjun
> Thanks,
> Emil