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>
Reviewed-by: Wei Zhao <wei.zh...@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 927877b6a..ca8ec907e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/base/ixgbe_common.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/base/ixgbe_common.c
@@ -3076,8 +3076,9 @@ 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

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