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From: Casey Leedom <leedom@chelsio.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: ethtool: add support for forward error
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| From: Wyborny, Carolyn <carolyn.wyborny@intel.com>
| Sent: Thursday, July 6, 2017 3:16 PM
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| Agree with your points generally, but other networking hw vendors have
| dealt with this since SFP variant and other modules arrived on the scene.=
=A0

The only case of this of which I'm aware is the SFP+ RJ45 1Gb/s
Transceiver Module.  But yes, that presaged what we're looking at
now as a much simpler example.

Casey=