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On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 08:30:52PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > Ok!
> > 
> > So should we completely skip hwmon_device_register_with_info() call
> > if (i2c_block_size < 2) ?
> 
> Yep. That would be a nice simple test.
> 
> But does ethtool -m still export the second page? That is also
> unreliable.

It will do, but we need to check how ethtool decides to request/dump
that information - we probably need to make sfp_module_info()
report that it's a ETH_MODULE_SFF_8079 style EEPROM, not the
ETH_MODULE_SFF_8472 style.

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