07/05/2020 10:53, Ivan Dyukov: > 06.05.2020 20:42, Ferruh Yigit пишет: > > On 4/27/2020 10:57 AM, Ivan Dyukov wrote: > >> This is initial patchset which introduces UNKNOWN speed to dpdk > >> applications. Also it contains changes related to printf formating. > >> Patchset contains changes for app/ and doc/ folders. > >> examples/ folder will be provided later. > >> > >> > > Also I can see there are some physical PMDs that are using > > 'ETH_SPEED_NUM_NONE' > > as unknown, can we fix them as part of this set? > > > Initially, we had a plan to use UNKNOWN only for virtual devices. > > Thomas, could you please comment this?
No I think UNKNOWN must be used also for HW devices which are not able to provide a speed value. In mlx5 case, it can be used to return the link status (up/down) even if speed query is failing (it happens with buggy kernel version).
