Merge branch 'ethtool-eeprom'

Moshe Shemesh says:

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ethtool: Extend module EEPROM dump API

Ethtool supports module EEPROM dumps via the `ethtool -m <dev>` command.
But in current state its functionality is limited - offset and length
parameters, which are used to specify a linear desired region of EEPROM
data to dump, is not enough, considering emergence of complex module
EEPROM layouts such as CMIS 4.0.
Moreover, CMIS 4.0 extends the amount of pages that may be accessible by
introducing another parameter for page addressing - banks.

Besides, currently module EEPROM is represented as a chunk of
concatenated pages, where lower 128 bytes of all pages, except page 00h,
are omitted. Offset and length are used to address parts of this fake
linear memory. But in practice drivers, which implement
get_module_info() and get_module_eeprom() ethtool ops still calculate
page number and set I2C address on their own.

This series tackles these issues by adding ethtool op, which allows to
pass page number, bank number and I2C address in addition to offset and
length parameters to the driver, adds corresponding netlink
infrastructure and implements the new interface in mlx5 driver.

This allows to extend userspace 'ethtool -m' CLI by adding new
parameters - page, bank and i2c. New command line format:
 ethtool -m <dev> [hex on|off] [raw on|off] [offset N] [length N] [page N] [bank N] [i2c N]

The consequence of this series is a possibility to dump arbitrary EEPROM
page at a time, in contrast to dumps of concatenated pages. Therefore,
offset and length change their semantics and may be used only to specify
a part of data within half page boundary, which size is currently limited
to 128 bytes.

As for drivers that support legacy get_module_info() and
get_module_eeprom() pair, the series addresses it by implementing a
fallback mechanism. As mentioned earlier, such drivers derive a page
number from 'global' offset, so this can be done vice versa without
their involvement thanks to standardization. If kernel netlink handler
of 'ethtool -m' command detects that new ethtool op is not supported by
the driver, it calculates offset from given page number and page offset
and calls old ndos, if they are available.
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\Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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