Naveen Mamindlapalli [off-list ref] writes:

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 - Is this the right extensibility model? I'd appreciate input from
   other NIC vendors on whether component/name/direction is flexible
   enough for their loopback implementations. Also, from the PHY/port
   folks (Maxime, Russell)! Naveen, please LMK if the MAC side of
   thing, is good enough for Marvell.

Hi Bjorn,

Is a SERDES component as Maxime suggested something you'd consider
for follow-up patches? It would be a natural fit for SoCs with a
separate SerDes hardware block.

I don't think so -- rather, I think I'll follow Maxime's suggestion for
fewer components, where "component" would be "Linux abstraction/object",
and the "name" would be 802.3 vocabolary. Please see my reply to Maxime
(in the writing now ;-)).


Cheers,
Björn