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Kernel fixup for Cotsworks SFF modules with invalid EEPROM identity bytes and a bad base checksum
Some Cotsworks SFF fibre modules ship with invalid data in the first EEPROM bytes (physical ID, extended physical ID, connector type) and with checksums programmed before the fields were finalised, so the Linux phy/sfp driveer does not detect them as valid modules. A kernel fixup rewrites the three…
