Enable SFF Manger on Arista linecards by default #20886
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SFF Manager in xcvrd needs to run to take non-cmis transceivers out of lpmode as part of the fix for these transceivers remaining in down state.
Why I did it
We wanted to enable SFF Manager on Arista linecards.
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How I did it
How to verify it
This is intended to work together with the change in sonic-net/sonic-platform-daemons#565.
Can be tested by loading an image containing this change alongside the change from sonic-net/sonic-platform-daemons#565 on an Arista chassis.
Verify that without this image some interfaces were in a down state but with the image all interfaces came up as expected.
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Description for the changelog
Added enable sff mgr in xcvrd by default on Arista linecards.
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