Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 12:41:58AM CET, k...@kernel.org wrote: >On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 14:56:46 +0100 Andrew Lunn wrote: >> > No, the FW does not know. The ASIC is not physically able to get the >> > linecard type. Yes, it is odd, I agree. The linecard type is known to >> > the driver which operates on i2c. This driver takes care of power >> > management of the linecard, among other tasks. >> >> So what does activated actually mean for your hardware? It seems to >> mean something like: Some random card has been plugged in, we have no >> idea what, but it has power, and we have enabled the MACs as >> provisioned, which if you are lucky might match the hardware? >> >> The foundations of this feature seems dubious. > >But Jiri also says "The linecard type is known to the driver which >operates on i2c." which sounds like there is some i2c driver (in user >space?) which talks to the card and _does_ have the info? Maybe I'm >misreading it. What's the i2c driver?
That is Vadim's i2c kernel driver, this is going to upstream.
