On ESXi OS, when user disables auto negotiation, the following log
appears: "(unsupported) Flow control autoneg is disabled".
It is true that auto negotiation is disabled but it is
not necessarily true that it is not supported.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Chylkowski <jakubx.chylkow...@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Guinan Sun <guinanx....@intel.com>
---
drivers/net/ixgbe/base/ixgbe_common.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgbe/base/ixgbe_common.c
b/drivers/net/ixgbe/base/ixgbe_common.c
index 4a3b48b39..bc9584ae0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/base/ixgbe_common.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/base/ixgbe_common.c
@@ -3077,8 +3077,9 @@ void ixgbe_fc_autoneg(struct ixgbe_hw *hw)
* - link is not up.
*/
if (hw->fc.disable_fc_autoneg) {
- ERROR_REPORT1(IXGBE_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED,
- "Flow control autoneg is disabled");
+ /* TODO: This should be just an informative log */
+ ERROR_REPORT1(IXGBE_ERROR_CAUTION,
+ "Flow control autoneg is disabled");
goto out;
}
--
2.17.1
