cmis: Request specific pages for parsing in netlink path
In the netlink path, unlike the IOCTL path, user space requests specific
EEPROM pages from the kernel. The presence of optional and banked pages
is advertised via various bits in the EEPROM contents.
Currently, for CMIS, the Lower Memory, Page 00h and the optional Page
01h are requested by the netlink code (i.e., netlink/module-eeprom.c)
and passed to the CMIS code (i.e., cmis.c) as two arguments for parsing.
This is problematic for several reasons. First, this approach is not
very scaleable as CMIS supports a lot of optional and banked pages.
Passing them as separate arguments to the CMIS code is not going to
work.
Second, the knowledge of which optional and banked pages are available
is encapsulated in the CMIS parsing code. As such, the common netlink
code has no business of fetching optional and banked pages that might be
invalid.
Instead, pass the command context to the CMIS parsing function and allow
it to fetch only valid pages via the 'MODULE_EEPROM_GET' netlink
message.
Tested by making sure that the output of 'ethtool -m' does not change
before and after the patch.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
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