Re: [PATCH net-next v4] net: sfp: add SMBus I2C block support
From: Jonas Jelonek <jelonek.jonas@gmail.com>
Date: 2026-01-16 11:16:15
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Hi Maxime, On 09.01.26 18:03, Maxime Chevallier wrote:
ACK, I'll gladly help with testing. This should actually be easily achievable with a board that has a real i2c interface connected to the SFP cage, as there's a i2c smbus emulation layer. The SMBus helpers will work with a true I2C adapter, you may have to tweak the code though. This is relevant for modules that have a built-in PHY that you can access, if you don't have any I can run some tests here, I have more than enough modules... If you don't have time at all for that, I may give this a shot at some point, but my time is a bit scarce right now :'(
I'd postpone this part if that's ok. Quite busy at the moment :( When I come to trying to work on that, should that all be kept in mdio-i2c.c? I'm asking because we have a downstream implementation moving that SMbus stuff to mdio-smbus.c. This covers quite a lot right now, C22/C45 and Rollball, but just with byte access [1]. Because that isn't my work, I'll need to check with the original authors and adapt this for an upstream patch, trying to add word + block access. Kind regards, Jonas [1] https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/blob/66b6791abe6f08dec2924b5d9e9e7dac93f37bc4/target/linux/realtek/patches-6.12/712-net-phy-add-an-MDIO-SMBus-library.patch